Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow was born in 1915 in Lachine, Quebec, Canada, the son of Jewish immigrants from Russia. When he was nine his family moved to Chicago, the city that would appear in much of his fiction. He studied at the University of Chicago and then Northwestern University, graduating with honors in anthropology and sociology. During the Second World War he served in the merchant marine, and he published his first novel, Dangling Man, in 1944. The Adventures of Augie March (1953), the lively story of a young man growing up in Chicago, won the National Book Award and made his reputation. He won the National Book Award again for Herzog (1964) and for Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970), and Humboldt's Gift (1975) won the Pulitzer Prize. In 1976 he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. For many years he taught at the University of Chicago, and later at Boston University. He also wrote short stories, plays and essays. He was married five times. He died in Brookline, Massachusetts, in 2005.

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Faith: Born into a Lithuanian-Jewish family; Jewish life is a major theme of his work. Source: Wikipedia