Saul Bellow, one of the 20th century's great writers, was born 100 years ago next month. The publishing world is marking the anniversary with a flurry of books — a Library of America edition of Bellow ...

Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; 10 June 1915 – 5 April 2005) was a Canadian-born American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and ...

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I am an American, Chicago born,” opens Saul Bellow’s early masterpiece, The Adventures of Augie March, “and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: ...

Asaf Galay’s documentary “The Adventures of Saul Bellow,” with its play on the title of Bellow’s breakthrough 1953 novel, “The Adventures of Augie March,” adroitly signals its intentions: not just to ...

But prior to Bellow and the novelists who emerged alongside him—Bernard Malamud, Norman Mailer, Philip Roth—there was a profound hesitance at the idea of letting anything as precious as American ...

A writer drove from Chicago to L.A. to see what it truly means to belong to a place. By Aatish Taseer and Andrew Moore Chicago is a city of bookish abundance, home to countless literary giants past ...

The Books Most Everyone Will Be Arguing About This FallIn a special, forward-looking seasonal edition of Lit Parade. New Biography Renews the Fight Over Saul BellowBrute or genius? Loathed or loved?

Saul Bellow's status as one of America's great writers has overshadowed the fact that he hasn't really written a long work for nearly two decades. It took the death of a close friend to inspire a new ...