Saul Bellow

Photo portrait of Bellow from the dust jacket of ''[[Herzog (novel)|Herzog]]'' (1964) Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; June 10, 1915April 5, 2005) was an American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only writer to win the National Book Award for Fiction three times, and he received the National Book Foundation's lifetime Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 1990.

In the words of the Swedish Nobel Committee, his writing exhibited "the mixture of rich picaresque novel and subtle analysis of our culture, of entertaining adventure, drastic and tragic episodes in quick succession interspersed with philosophic conversation, all developed by a commentator with a witty tongue and penetrating insight into the outer and inner complications that drive us to act, or prevent us from acting, and that can be called the dilemma of our age." His best-known works include ''The Adventures of Augie March,'' ''Henderson the Rain King'', ''Herzog'', ''Mr. Sammler's Planet'', ''Seize the Day'', ''Humboldt's Gift'', and ''Ravelstein''.

Bellow said that of all his characters, Eugene Henderson, of ''Henderson the Rain King'', was the one most like himself. Bellow grew up as an immigrant from Quebec. As Christopher Hitchens describes it, Bellow's fiction and principal characters reflect his own yearning for transcendence, a battle "to overcome not just ghetto conditions but also ghetto psychoses." Bellow's protagonists wrestle with what Albert Corde, the dean in ''The Dean's December'', called "the big-scale insanities of the 20th century." This transcendence of the "unutterably dismal" (a phrase from ''Dangling Man'') is achieved, if it can be achieved at all, through a "ferocious assimilation of learning" (Hitchens) and an emphasis on nobility. Provided by Wikipedia
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    Saul Bellow. by Bellow, Saul

    Washington, D.C. : Tapes for Readers, 1978
    Format: Audio Book Chapter

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    More die of heartbreak by Bellow, Saul

    New York : Morrow, 1987
    First edition.
    Format: Book


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    Mr. Sammler's planet by Bellow, Saul

    New York : Viking Press, 1970
    Format: Government Document Book


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    Seize the day by Bellow, Saul

    Format: Book


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    To Jerusalem and back : a personal account by Bellow, Saul

    New York : Viking Press, 1976
    Format: Book


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    Novels, 1944-1953 by Bellow, Saul

    New York : Literary Classics of the U.S., 2003
    Format: Book


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    Humboldt's gift by Bellow, Saul

    New York : Viking Press, 1975
    Format: Book


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    Collected stories by Bellow, Saul

    New York : Viking, 2001
    Format: Book


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    The victim by Bellow, Saul

    New York : Vanguard Press, 1947
    Format: Book


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    The dean's December by Bellow, Saul

    New York : Penguin Books, 1998
    Format: Book


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    Saul Bellow by Bellow, Saul

    Washington, D.C. : Tapes for Readers, 1978
    Format: Audio Book Chapter

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    Him with his foot in his mouth and other stories by Bellow, Saul

    New York : Harper & Row, 1984
    Format: Book


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    The portable Saul Bellow by Bellow, Saul

    New York : Viking Press, 1974
    Format: Book


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    More die of heartbreak by Bellow, Saul

    New York : William Morrow and Company, 1987
    1st ed.
    Format: Book


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    Seize the day by Bellow, Saul

    Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1976
    Format: Book


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    Novels, 1970-1982 by Bellow, Saul

    New York : Library of America, 2010
    Other Authors:
    Format: Book


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    It all adds up : from the dim past to the uncertain future : a nonfiction collection by Bellow, Saul

    New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking, 1994
    Format: Book


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    Ravelstein by Bellow, Saul

    New York : Viking, 2000
    Format: Book


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    Novels, 1944-1953 : Dangling man ; The victim ; The adventures of Augie March by Bellow, Saul

    New York : Literary Classics of the United States, 2003
    Format: Book


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    The actual : a novella by Bellow, Saul

    New York : Viking, 1997
    Format: Book