Saul Bellow was born of Russian Jewish parents in
Lachine, Quebec in 1915, and was raised in Chicago. His works
include The Adventures of Augie March, which went on to
win the National Book Award for fiction in 1954, Seize the
Day (1956); Henderson the Rain
King (1959); and Humboldt's Gift (1975),
which won the Pulitzer Prize. In 1976 Bellow was awarded the Nobel
Prize for Literature "for the human understanding and subtle
analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his
work." In 2003, he became just the second living writer to
have his works published in the Library of America series. He died
in 2005.
James Wood, editor, is a staff writer at The New
Yorker and author of The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter
and the Novel (2004), The Broken Estate: Essays on
Literature and Belief(1999), and the novel The Book Against
God (2003).
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