Literary Lunch

Saul Bellow was born on June 10, 1915 in Lachine, Quebec. The family moved to Chicago when he was nine.  In 1937, he graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor’s degree in anthropology and sociology. He did his post-graduate degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In the 1930’s, Bellow worked as a writer for the Works Progress Administration Writer’s Project.  He became a U.S. citizen in 1941 and during World War II joined the merchant marine. After the war, Bellow taught at the University of Minnesota. In 1948, he won the Guggenheim Fellowship and moved to France.  In 1962, Bellow was a professor at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He was married five times and had 4 children.

In 1944, Saul Bellow published his first novel, Dangling Man . That was followed by The Victim (1947), The Adventures of Augie March (1953).  In 1962, he had his first best-selling novel with Herzog .  In 1975, he wrote Humboldt’s Gift which won the Pulitzer Prize. In 1976, Bellow was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He also won many other awards world-wide for his writing. In addition to writing novels, Bellow also wrote short stories, essays, and translated a book by Isaac Bashevis Singer in 1953. His last novel, Ravelstein, was published in 2000.

Saul Bellow died on April 5, 2005.

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