Literature · Media · 1915–2005
Born: 10 June 1915 · Died: 5 April 2005 · Age at death: 89
Saul Bellow died aged 89. He was born on 10 June 1915 and died on 5 April 2005.
Canadian-born American novelist of The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog and Humboldt's Gift who won the Nobel Prize
Did you know?He is the only writer to win the National Book Award for Fiction on three separate occasions.
Saul Bellow wrote the great comic novels of American city life. Born in Quebec to Russian-Jewish immigrants, he grew up in Chicago, the city at the heart of his work. The Adventures of Augie March, with its famous opening "I am an American, Chicago born", made his name. Herzog follows a professor writing letters he never sends. Humboldt's Gift won the Pulitzer Prize. His characters are restless thinkers lost in a noisy modern world. He won three National Book Awards and the Nobel Prize in 1976.
Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; June 10, 1915 – April 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.
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Canadian-American novelist, 1915–2005
Saul Bellow was born in Lachine, Quebec, on 10 June 1915.
He grew up in Chicago.
The Adventures of Augie March appeared in 1953.
He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976.
Career highlights
Did you know?He won the National Book Award for Fiction three times.
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