Saul Bellow (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)

Biography

Saul Bellow's parents were Russian Jews who had emigrated to Canada. A precocious, intelligent child, he had learned not only English but also Yiddish, Hebrew, and French by the time the family moved to Chicago in 1924. Bellow always considered Chicago his spiritual birthplace. In 1933, he graduated from Tuley High School and enrolled in the University of Chicago, where, by his own account, he was peripatetic in his studies, drifting from one course to another, registering for one but finding another more interesting. Among novelists, Theodore Dreiser and Joseph...

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