Saul Bellow - Biography:
Praised for his vision, his ear for detail, his humor, and the masterful artistry of his prose, Saul Bellow was born of Russian Jewish parents in Lachine, Quebec in 1915, and was raised in Chicago. He received his Bachelor's degree from Northwestern University in 1937, with honors in sociology and anthropology, and did graduate work at the University of Wisconsin. During the Second World War he served in the Merchant Marines.
Saul Bellow's novels include "The Adventures of Augie March" (1953), "Herzog" (1964), and "Mr. Sammler's Planet" (1970), all of which won National Book Awards. Bellow won the Pulitzer Prize for "Humboldt's Gift" in 1975. In 1976, he became the seventh American author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Saul Bellow was known for writing about everyman. His primary characters were often unlucky in life, and flawed in their characters.
Dates:
(1915 - 2005)
Nationality:
American
Genre(s):
Novels; Stories; Essays; Plays
Notable Work:
"The Adventures of Augie March" (1953), "Herzog" (1964), and "Mr. Sammler's Planet" (1970), "Humboldt's Gift" (1975)
Quotation:
"I do believe that I have something of importance to transmit....I think of myself as speaking to an inviolate part of other people, around which there is a sort of nearly sacred perimeter, a significant space...a place where the human being really has removed to, with all his most important spiritual possessions."
