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Saul Bellow (1915 - 2005)

winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976

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Biographical sites about Saul Bellow

Biography of Saul Bellow

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1976/bellow-bio.html

This biography, from the Nobel Foundation, gives a brief overview of Saul Bellow's life.

Contains: Sketch, Pictures

From: Nobel Foundation

Keywords: life, history, biography

 

Saul Bellow

http://www.emanuelnyc.org/bulletin/archive/36.html

"A biographical sketch is essential because the reading of Mr. Bellow's works involves the taking of a course in the fields of anthropology, social thought, creative writing, and in the various literary cultures of French, English, and Yiddish. The last, the Yiddish culture, Bellow's protestations to the contrary, permeates all his writing."

Contains: Sketch

From: The Bulletin

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Saul Bellow

http://lfa.atu.edu/Brucker/Bellow.html

"A novelist who rejects the orthodoxy of modernism, Bellow's work is distinguished by his humanistic concern for character and his clear-sighted analysis of contemporary society."

Contains: Full Bio, Bibliography, Awards

Author: Carl Brucker

From: Nobel Prize Winners in Literature

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Other sites about Saul Bellow

Bellow on Love, Art and Identity

http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/04/23/specials/bellow-onlove.html

In an interview about "More Die of Heartbreak," Bellow says that one of the book's subjects "is the difference between a fabricated person and a true person."

Contains: Interview

Author: Mervyn Rothstein

From: The New York Times June 3, 1987

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Featured Author: Saul Bellow

http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/10/15/specials/bellow.html

"News and Reviews From the Archives of The New York Times."

Contains: Commentary

From: The New York Times on the Web

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For Bellow, Novel is a Mirror of Society

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/25/reviews/bellow-interview.html

"In an interview, Bellow laments the decline of the social novel and says about the response to the work of Jewish novelists, 'The Protestant majority thought it had lost its grip, so the ghetto walls went up around us.'"

Contains: Interview

Author: Alden Whitman

From: The New York Times November 25, 1975

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Nobel Lecture 1976--Literature

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1976/bellow-lecture.html

"I was a very contrary undergraduate more than 40 years ago. It was my habit to register for a course and then to do most of my reading in another field of study. So that when I should have been grinding away at "Money and Banking" I was reading the novels of Joseph Conrad."

Contains: Awards

Author: Saul Bellow

From: Nobel Foundation

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Talk With Saul Bellow

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/25/reviews/bellow-talk.html

In an interview about "The Adventures of Augie March," Bellow said, "Today, the novelist thinks too much of immortality and he tries to create form. He tries to make his work durable through form. But you have to take your chances on mortality, on perishability."

Contains: Interview

Author: Harvey Breit

From: The New York Times September 20, 1953

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A Talk With Saul Bellow: On His Work and Himself

http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/04/23/specials/bellow-talk81.html

"In an interview about 'The Dean's December,' Bellow says that he realized after writing 'To Jerusalem and Back' that 'it was as easy to write about great public matters as about private ones -- all it required was more confidence and daring.'"

Contains: Interview

Author: Michiko Kakutani

From: The New York Times December 13, 1981

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With Bellow in Chicago

http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/04/23/specials/bellow-chicago80.html

"Speaking in an interview about an abandoned project to write nonfiction about Chicago, Bellow said, 'The people of Chicago are very proud of their wickedness. This is good old vulgar politics, despite the pretensions.'"

Contains: Interview

Author: Herbert Mitgang

From: The New York Times July 6, 1980

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