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Saul BellowSaul Bellow (June 10, 1915 – April 5, 2005), was an acclaimed Canadian-born American Jewish writer, who won the Nobel prize in literature in 1976 and is best known for writing novels that investigate isolation, spiritual dissociation, and the possibilities of human awakening. While on a Guggenheim fellowship in Paris, he wrote most of his best-known novel, The Adventures of Augie March. He was born Solomon Bellows in Lachine, Quebec, shortly after his parents had emigrated from St. Petersburg, and he was then schooled in the United States. Bellow has taught at the University of Minnesota, New York University, Princeton, the University of Chicago, Bard College, and Boston University. To assume the last teaching appointment, Bellow relocated in 1993 from Chicago, the setting of many of his stories, to Brookline, Massachusetts where he died in 2005. Bellow received his undergraduate degree not in English, but in anthropology at Northwestern University. It has been suggested that the study of Anthropology has had an interesting influence on his literary style. Before Bellow started his career as a writer he wrote book reviews for 10$ apiece. his early works earned him the reputation as one of the foremost novelists of the 20th century, and by his death he was regarded by many as the greatest living writer in the world. He was the first novelist to win the National Book Award three times. His friend and protege Philip Roth has said of him, "The backbone of 20th-century American literature has been provided by two novelists—William Faulkner and Saul Bellow. Together they are the Melville, Hawthorne, and Twain of the 20th century." Although not as widely acclaimed as some of his novels, Bellow's later works include the powerful and well-crafted collection of short stories entitled Him with His Foot in His Mouth. Bellow's story lines are led by the personal quests and crises of his protagonists rather than by action. Our introduction to a Bellow protagonist is often at a point of deep crisis in the character's life. Whether romantic, financial or sparked by other causes, the turmoil experienced by a typical Bellow protagonist leads to deep existential questioning. Bellow artfully manages to reference the teachings of great philosophers and thinkers within many of his novels, usually without damaging their readability or disrupting story flow. One remarkable example of this technique is seen within Mr. Sammler's Planet, Bellow's novel about a curmudgeonly Holocaust survivor living in New York City amid the cultural revolution of the 1960s. Bibliography Novels Essays - "It All Adds Up"
- "To Jerusalem and Back" (1976)
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