Bellow (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: James Atlas
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1915-2000
- Setting: Chicago, New York City, and numerous other locations in the United States and Europe
- Principal Characters: Saul Bellow, Abraham Bellow, Anita (Goshkin) Bellow, Isaac Rosenfeld, Delmore Schwartz, Allan Bloom
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Europe or Europeans, New York City, Literature, Chicago, United States
- Locales: New York, NY, Europe, United States, Chicago, IL
Saul Bellow was without question the dominant American novelist of the second half of the twentieth century. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976, the Pulitzer Prize in the same year for Humboldt’s Gift (1975), and National Book Awards for three earlier novels (The Adventures of Augie March, 1953; Herzog, 1964; and Mr. Sammler’s Planet, 1970), Bellow created a substantial body of literary work matched only in the twentieth century in the United States, perhaps, by William Faulkner. That body of work, as James Atlas argues in his detailed and...
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