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Saul Bellow (June 10, 1915 – April 5, 2005) was a
Canadian
-born
Jewish American
writer
. For his literary contributions, Bellow was awarded the
Pulitzer Prize
, the
Nobel Prize for Literature
, and the
National Medal of Arts
.
[2]
He is the only writer to have won the
National Book Award
three times, and the only writer to have been nominated for it six times.
In the words of the Swedish
Nobel Committee
, his writing exhibited "the mixture of rich picaresque novel and subtle analysis of our culture, of entertaining adventure, drastic and tragic episodes in quick succession interspersed with philosophic conversation, all developed by a commentator with a witty tongue and penetrating insight into the outer and inner complications that drive us to act, or prevent us from acting, and that can be called the dilemma of our age."
[3]
His best-known works include
The Adventures of Augie March
,
Henderson the Rain King
,
Herzog
,
Mr. Sammler's Planet
,
Seize the Day
,
Humboldt's Gift
and
Ravelstein
. Widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's greatest authors, Bellow has had a "huge literary influence."
[4]
In 1989, Bellow received the Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award. The
Helmerich Award
is presented annually by the
Tulsa Library Trust
.
Early life
Saul Bellow was born Solomon Bellow
[5]
in
Lachine, Quebec
, two years after his parents emigrated from
Saint Petersburg
,
Russia
. Bellow celebrated his birthday in June, although he may have been born in July (in the Jewish community, it was customary to record the Hebrew date of birth, which does not always coincide with the Gregorian calendar).
[6]
Of his family's emigration, Bellow wrote:
“
The retrospective was strong in me because of my parents. They were both full of the notion that they were falling, falling. They had been prosperous cosmopolitans in Saint Petersburg. My mother could never stop talking about the family dacha, her privileged life, and how all that was now gone. She was working in the kitchen. Cooking, washing, mending... There had been servants in Russia... But you could always transpose from your humiliating condition with the help of a sort of embittered irony.
[7]
A period of illness from a respiratory infection at age eight both taught him self-reliance
(he was a very fit man despite his sedentary occupation) and provided an opportunity to satisfy his hunger for reading: reportedly, he decided to be a writer when he first read
Harriet Beecher Stowe
's
Uncle Tom's Cabin
.
When Bellow was nine, his family moved to the
Humboldt Park
neighborhood of
Chicago
, the city that was to form the backdrop of many of his novels. Bellow's father, Abraham, was an onion importer. He also worked in a bakery, as a coal delivery man, and as a bootlegger.
Bellow's mother, Liza, died when he was 17.
He was left with his father and brother, Maurice. Maurice later married Joyce and they gave birth to Holly and David. His mother was deeply religious, and wanted her youngest son, Saul, to become a rabbi or a concert violinist. But he rebelled against what he later called the "suffocating orthodoxy" of his religious upbringing, and he began writing at a young age.
Bellow's lifelong love for the
Bible
began at four when he learned
Hebrew
. Bellow also grew up reading
William Shakespeare
and the great
Russian novelists
of the 19th century.
[5]
In Chicago, he took part in
anthroposophical studies
. Bellow attended Tuley High School on Chicago's west side where he befriended fellow writer
Isaac Rosenfeld
. In his 1959 novel
Henderson the Rain King
, Bellow modeled the character King Dahfu on Rosenfeld.
[8]
Education and early career
Bellow attended the
University of Chicago
but later transferred to
Northwestern University
. He originally wanted to study literature, but he felt the English department to be anti-Jewish; instead, he graduated with honors in
anthropology
and
sociology
.
[9]
It has been suggested Bellow's study of anthropology had an interesting influence on his literary style, and anthropological references pepper his works.[
citation needed
] Bellow later did graduate work at the
University of Wisconsin–Madison
.
Paraphrasing Bellow's description of his close friend
Allan Bloom
(see
Ravelstein
),
John Podhoretz
has said that both Bellow and Bloom "inhaled books and ideas the way the rest of us breathe air."
[10]
In the 1930s, Bellow was part of the Chicago branch of the
Works Progress Administration
Writer's Project, which included such future Chicago literary luminaries as
Richard Wright
and
Nelson Algren
. Most of the writers were radical: if they were not card-carrying members of the
Communist Party USA
, they were sympathetic to the cause. Bellow was a
Trotskyist
, but because of the greater numbers of
Stalinist
-leaning writers he had to suffer their taunts.
[11]
In 1941 Bellow became a
naturalized
US citizen.
[12]
In 1943,
Maxim Lieber
was his literary agent.
During
World War II
, Bellow joined the
merchant marine
and during his service he completed his first novel,
Dangling Man
(1944) about a young Chicago man waiting to be drafted for the war.
From 1946 through 1948 Bellow taught at the
University of Minnesota
, living on Commonwealth Avenue, in St. Paul, Minnesota.
[13]
In 1948, Bellow was awarded a
Guggenheim Fellowship
that allowed him to move to
Paris
, where he began writing
The Adventures of Augie March
(1953). Critics have remarked on the resemblance between Bellow's
picaresque novel
and the great 17th Century Spanish classic
Don Quixote
. The book starts with one of American literature's most famous opening paragraphs, and it follows its titular character through a series of careers and encounters, as he lives by his wits and his resolve. Written in a colloquial yet philosophical style,
The Adventures of Augie March
established Bellow's reputation as a major author.
In the late 1950s he taught creative writing at the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras. One of his students was
William Kennedy
, who was encouraged by Bellow to write fiction.
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