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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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