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Saul Bellow


(Solomon Bellows)
USA flag (1915 - 2005)

Saul Bellow, born Solomon Bellows, was an acclaimed Canadian-born American writer. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976 and the National Medal of Arts in 1988. Bellow is best known for writing novels that investigate isolation, spiritual dissociation, and the possibilities of human awakening. Bellow drew inspiration from Chicago, his hometown, and he set much of his fiction there. His works exhibit a mix of high and low culture, and his fictional characters are also a potent mix of intellectual dreamers and street-smart confidence men. While on a Guggenheim fellowship in Paris, he wrote his best-known novel, The Adventures of Augie March.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Novels
   The Dangling Man (1944)
   The Victim (1947)
   The Adventures of Augie March (1953)
   Seize the Day (1956)
   Henderson the Rain King (1959)
   Herzog (1964)
   Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970)
   Humboldt's Gift (1975)
   A Silver Dish (1979)
   The Dean's December (1981)
   Ayatta (1983)
   More Die of Heartbreak (1987)
   A Theft (1989)
   The Actual (1997)
   Ravelstein (2000)
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Collections
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Novellas and Short Stories
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Anthologies edited
   Great Jewish Short Stories (1971)
   Editors (2001) (with Keith Botsford)
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Saul Bellow recommends
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Gospel of Simon (2016)
John Smelcer
"A book that rewinds us again and again of Jesus's gospel of love."
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The Devil's Tub (2014)
Edward Hoagland
"One of the very best writers of his generation."
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Tony and Susan (1993)
Austin Wright
"Marvellously written - the last thing you would expect in a story of blood and revenge. Beautiful."

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Anthologies containing stories by Saul Bellow
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The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2008)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Katrina Kenison and John Updike
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First Cases 4 (2002)
The Early Years of Famous Detectives
(First Cases, book 4)
edited by
Robert J Randisi

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Awards
National Book Award for Fiction Best Book winner (1954) : The Adventures of Augie March
National Book Award for Fiction Best Book winner (1965) : Herzog
National Book Award for Fiction Best Book winner (1971) : Mr. Sammler's Planet
Nobel Prize in Literature Lifetime Achievement winner (1976)
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Best Book winner (1976) : Humboldt's Gift


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