Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow was born in Lachine, Quebec, Canada on 10 June 1915. He was a Jewish Canadian-American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. Propelled by the success of Humboldt's Gift, Bellow won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1976. In the 70-minute address he gave to an audience in Stockholm, Sweden, Bellow called on writers to be beacons for civilization and awaken it from intellectual torpor. 

Bellow was married five times, with all but his last marriage ending in divorce. His son by his first marriage, Greg Bellow, became a psychotherapist; Greg Bellow published Saul Bellow’s Heart: A Son’s Memoir in 2013, nearly a decade after his father's death. Bellow's son by his second marriage, Adam, published a nonfiction book In Praise of Nepotism in 2003. Bellow's wives were Anita Goshkin, Alexandra (Sondra) Tsachacbasov, Susan Glassman, Alexandra Ionescu Tulcea and Janis Freedman. In 2000, when he was 84, Bellow had his fourth child and first daughter, with Freedman.

While he read voluminously, Bellow also played the violin and followed sports. Work was a constant for him, but he at times toiled at a plodding pace on his novels, frustrating the publishing company.

He died in Brookline, Massachusetts, United Nates on 5 April 2005, at the age of 89.

Saul Bellow (1915-2005)

HERZOG (1964)

THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH (1953)

RAVELSTEIN (2000)

THE BELLAROSA CONNECTION (1989)

SOMETHING TO REMEMBER ME BY (1991)

HUMBOLDT'S GIFT (1975)

THE VICTIM (1947)