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Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow was born of Russian Jewish parents in Lachine, Quebec, in 1915, and was raised in Chicago. He received his bachelor's degree from Northwestern University in 1937. His novel The Adventures of Augie March won the National Book Award for fiction in 1954. His further awards include the Pulitzer Prize for Humboldt's Gift (1975); the International Literary Prize for Herzog, for which he became the first American recipient; and the Croix de Chevalier des Arts et Lettres, the highest literary distinction awarded by France to non-citizens. In 1976, Bellow was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
It All Adds Up
There Is Simply Too Much to Think About
The Adventures of Augie March
Herzog
Ravelstein
Collected Stories
Henderson the Rain King
Something to Remember Me By
Saul Bellow
The Victim
The Actual
Humboldt's Gift
The Adventures of Augie March
Dangling Man
Mr. Sammler's Planet
Seize the Day
Ravelstein
To Jerusalem and Back
Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories
It All Adds Up

Books

It All Adds Up
There Is Simply Too Much to Think About
The Adventures of Augie March
Herzog
Ravelstein
Collected Stories
Henderson the Rain King
Something to Remember Me By
Saul Bellow
The Victim
The Actual
Humboldt's Gift
The Adventures of Augie March
Dangling Man
Mr. Sammler's Planet
Seize the Day
Ravelstein
To Jerusalem and Back
Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories
It All Adds Up

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