“t discuss them – it was too weird and close to home. So, after his death, in a touching act of tribute, Bellow reread every novel. The most painful to read was Mr Sammler”
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Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow was a Canadian-American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only writer to win the National Book Award for Fiction three times, and he received the National Book Foundation's lifetime Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 1990.
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culture · American writer (1915–2005) · writer · novelist · university teacher · essayist · author · journalist · sociologist · anthropologist · also Saul Bellow, Solomon Bellows, Bellow
Born 10 June 1915 · Died 5 April 2005 · Q83059
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I was 20 before he became famous, so I did not grow up the son of a famous father. I grew up the son of a starving artist.
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2026· 3 entries
“I was 20 before he became famous, so I did not grow up the son of a famous father. I grew up the son of a starving artist.”
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“Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus? The Proust of the Papuans? I”
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2022· 1 entry
Chicago Tribune: The adventures of Nobel Prize-winning writer Saul Bellow come to ‘American Masters’
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2018· 2 entries
The Guardian: The Life of Saul Bellow by Zachary Leader review – love, sex, friendship as fiction fodder
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The Guardian: The Life of Saul Bellow: Love and Strife 1965-2005 by Zachary Leader review – the definitive account
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2017· 1 entry
The University of Chicago Chronicle: Papers of Nobel laureate Saul Bellow open for research at UChicago Library
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2016· 2 entries
The Guardian: Martin Amis working on novel about Christopher Hitchens, Saul Bellow and Philip Larkin
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Wall Street Journal: Why Nobody Wants Saul Bellow’s Desk
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2015· 3 entries
The Guardian: The Life of Saul Bellow by Zachary Leader review – ‘Was I a man or was I a jerk?’
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The New Yorker: Catching Saul Bellow's Mind in Constant, Roiling Action
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The Guardian: The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune 1915-1964 review – a dizzyingly detailed case for the defence
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2013· 2 entries
Nearly a decade after his father's death
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His son Greg by his first marriage became a psychotherapist; he published Saul Bellow's Heart: A Son's Memoir in 2013, nearly a decade after his father's death.
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2010· 1 entry
Cleveland.com: 'Saul Bellow: Letters' is brilliant, bitter and impolitic
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2005· 6 entries
Jewish Journal: Appreciating Saul Bellow’s Jewishness
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Died 2005-04-05.
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“Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches.”
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“All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.”
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“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
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“I discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, "To hell with you.”
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1999· 2 entries
In 1999, when he was 84, Bellow had his fourth child and first daughter, with Freedman.
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When he was 84, Bellow had his fourth child and first daughter, with Freedman
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1998· 2 entries
Awarded Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service (1998).
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Was elected to the American Philosophical Society
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1992· 1 entry
“There Is Simply Too Much to Think About”
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1989· 2 entries
Awarded PEN/Malamud Award (1989).
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Awarded Helmerich Award (1989).
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1986· 1 entry
Awarded St. Louis Literary Award (1986).
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1980· 1 entry
Awarded O. Henry Award (1980).
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1979· 1 entry
“The Day They Signed the Treaty”
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1977· 2 entries
Won Emerson-Thoreau Medal (1977).
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Awarded Jefferson Lecture (1977).
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1976· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (1976).
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Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Humboldt's Gift (1976).
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1971· 2 entries
Awarded National Book Award for Fiction for Mr. Sammler's Planet (1971).
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Kingsley suggested that crime writer John D
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1965· 2 entries
Awarded Prix Formentor (1965).
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Awarded National Book Award for Fiction for Herzog (1965).
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1962· 2 entries
As a professor at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago
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“Facts That Put Fancy to Flight”
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1961· 1 entry
“Literary Notes on Khrushchev”
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1958· 1 entry
Bellow once again taught at the University of Minnesota
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1955· 1 entry
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1955).
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1954· 1 entry
Awarded National Book Award for Fiction for The Adventures of Augie March (1954).
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1953· 1 entry
Bellow translated Gimpel the Fool by Isaac Bashevis Singer from Yiddish into English
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1948· 2 entries
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1948).
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Bellow was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship that allowed him to move to Paris, where he began writing The Adventures of Augie March (1953)
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1941· 1 entry
Bellow became a naturalized United States citizen, after discovering, on attempting to enlist in the armed forces, that he had immigrated to the United States illegally as a child
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1937· 1 entry
Studied at Northwestern University (1937).
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1933· 1 entry
Studied at University of Chicago (1933).
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1915· 1 entry
Born 1915-06-10.
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