Saul Bellow (1915–2005)
Author of Herzog
About the Author
Saul Bellow was born in Lachine, Quebec, Canada on June 10, 1915. He attended the University of Chicago, received a Bachelor's degree in sociology and anthropology from Northwestern University in 1937, and did graduate work at the University of Wisconsin. He taught at several universities including show more the University of Minnesota, Princeton University, the University of Chicago, New York University, and Boston University. His first novel, Dangling Man, was published in 1944. His other works include The Victim, Seize the Day, Henderson the Rain King, Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories, To Jerusalem and Back: A Personal Account, Him with His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories, More Die of Heartbreak, and Something to Remember Me By. He received numerous awards including the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Humboldt's Gift, the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature, and three National Book Awards for fiction for The Adventures of Augie March in 1954, Herzog in 1964, and Mr. Sammler's Planet in 1970. Also a playwright, he wrote The Last Analysis and three short plays, collectively entitled Under the Weather, which were produced on Broadway in 1966. He died on April 5, 2005. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: Saul Bellow - Photograph taken during the Dejan Stojanovic's interview with Saul Bellow at the University of Chicago in the spring of 1992.
Series
Works by Saul Bellow
Novels, 1944-1953 : The Dangling Man; The Victim; The Adventures of Augie March (2003) — Author — 344 copies
Bellow: Novels 1970-1982: Mr. Sammler's Planet / Humboldt's Gift / The Dean's December (Library of… (2010) — Author — 124 copies
Traverse plays (Penguin plays) 8 plays by international authors premiered by Traverse Theatre Edinburgh (1966) 14 copies
Best-in-Books: Great American Short Novels - Lost Horizon / Red Pony / Third Man / Single Pebble / Light in the Piazza… (1966) 4 copies
New world writing : 12 4 copies
Kirjailijan työ : Saul Bellow, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Boris Pasternak, Kurt Vonnegut (1985) 3 copies
Romanzi 1: 1944-1959 (Danglng Man; The Victim; The Adventures of Augie March; Seize the Day; Henderson the Rain King) (2007) 3 copies
Romanzi 3 copies
The Arts & the Public 3 copies
Presença de mulher 2 copies
A Father-to-Be 2 copies
Mientras Agonizo 2 copies
Romanzi 2: 1960-2000 (Herzog; Mr. Sammler's Planet; Humboldt's Gift; A Theft; The Bellarosa Connection; Something to… (2008) — Author — 2 copies
Cartas e Recordações 2 copies
What Kind of Day Did You Have? 2 copies
הסיפורים הנבחרים 2 copies
Recent American Fiction: A Lecture Presented Under The Auspices Of The Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry And Literature… (2012) 2 copies
BEL Acusado 1 copy
Jugar a perdre 1 copy
Herzog, di Saul Bellow 1 copy
O Planeta do Sr Sammler 1 copy
Il re della pioggia 1 copy
HERZOG BELLOW SAUL 1 copy
Heros 1 copy
Orange Souffle / The Wrecker 1 copy
2002 1 copy
The Noble Savage 2 — Editor — 1 copy
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The Dean´s December 1 copy
Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Translator, some editions — 929 copies
Published and Perished: Memoria, Eulogies, and Remembrances of American Writers (2002) — Contributor — 37 copies
The Second Gates of Paradise: The Anthology of Erotic Short Fiction (1997) — Contributor — 37 copies
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (1970) — Contributor — 13 copies
New World Writing: Sixth Mentor Selection - A New Adventure in Modern Reading (1954) — Contributor — 12 copies
Literary Imagination, Ancient and Modern: Essays in Honor of David Grene (1999) — Contributor — 7 copies
Fifty Years of the American Short Story: from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (Volume I) (1970) — Contributor — 3 copies
32 Współczesne Opowiadania Amerykańskie - Tom I — Contributor — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Bellows, Solomon
- Birthdate
- 1915-06-10
- Date of death
- 2005-04-05
- Burial location
- Morningside Cemetery, Brattleboro, Vermont, USA
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Canada (birth)
USA (passport) - Country (for map)
- USA
- Birthplace
- Lachine, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Place of death
- Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
- Places of residence
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Education
- University of Chicago [1939]
Northwestern University [1937]
University of Wisconsin - Occupations
- writer
- Relationships
- Bellow, Adam (son)
Bellow, Alexandra (wife)
Botsford, Keith (colleague)
Tarcov, Edith (friend)
Howland, Bette (protégée) - Organizations
- U.S. Merchant Marines
- Awards and honors
- Nobel Prize ( [1976])
PEN/Malamud Award (1989)
National Medal of Arts (1988)
Croix de Chavalier des Arts et Lettres (France)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award ( [1952])
Man Booker International Prize Finalist (2005) (show all 10)
Jefferson Lecture (1977)
Emerson-Thoreau Medal (1977)
Chicago Literary Hall of Fame (2010)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1958) - Short biography
- Saul Bellow est un écrivain et universitaire américain.
Il est né en 1915, à Lachine, une banlieue industrielle de Montréal, le 10 juin 1915. Ses parents ont émigré deux ans auparavant de la Russie du tsar, de Saint-Pétersbourg. Le père de Saul, Abraham Bellow – le « gentilhomme » évoqué dans le roman le plus autobiographique, Herzog –, après avoir fait faillite comme boulanger, exerce plusieurs petits métiers.
Enfant, Saul Bellow grandit dans un quartier miséreux de Montréal, au contact de la communauté juive. Lorsqu'il a neuf ans, la famille Bellow émigre de nouveau et s'installe dans un quartier polonais du West Side de Chicago.
Saul a une enfance rêveuse et solitaire – studieuse aussi, car il est très tôt attiré par les choses de l'esprit. L'influence juive est prépondérante; il suit d'ailleurs un enseignement talmudique.
Étudiant brillant, il fréquente l'université de Chicago, puis la Northwestern University où il étudie l'anthropologie et la sociologie. Jeune écrivain, pour gagner sa vie, il collabore quelque temps à l'Encyclopaedia Britannica tout en enseignant dans un collège de Chicago. Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il sert dans la marine marchande; dès la fin du conflit, il s'installe à New York.
Au confluent de trois cultures - américaine, russe et yiddish -, Saul Bellow se veut un moraliste, un chroniqueur de son siècle et un découvreur d'idées nouvelles. Cet humaniste est peut-être l'écrivain américain qui récapitule le mieux l'expérience des immigrants ou fils d'immigrants à la découverte de leur Amérique, en porte-à-faux dans leur pays et dans leur époque : de cette instabilité, de ce désarroi du moi, il a fait le thème de toute son œuvre, laquelle atteint rapidement une audience internationale et est couronnée du prix Nobel en 1976.
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- Works
- 119
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- Rating
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- ISBNs
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