Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow (June 10, 1915 – April 5, 2005), was an acclaimed Canadian-born American Jewish writer, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976 and is best known for writing novels that investigate isolation, spiritual dissociation, and the possibilities of human awakening. While on a Guggenheim fellowship in Paris, he wrote most of his best-known novel, The Adventures of Augie March.

Bibliography

Fiction

• Dangling Man (1944)
• The Victim (1947)
• The Adventures of Augie March (1953)
• Seize the Day (1956)
• Henderson the Rain King (1959)
• Herzog (1964)
• Mosby's Memoirs (short stories also available in Collected Stories) (1968)
• Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970)
• Humboldt's Gift (1975), won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize
• The Dean's December (1982)
• Him with His Foot in His Mouth (short stories also available in Collected Stories) (1984)
• More Die of Heartbreak(1987)
• A Theft (1989)
• The Bellarosa Connection (1989)
• Something to Remember Me By: Three Tales (collecting the eponymous short story, A Theft and The Bellarosa Connection) (1991)
• The Actual (1997)
• Ravelstein (2000)
• Collected Stories (2001)

Essays

• To Jerusalem and Back (1976)
• It All Adds Up (1994)

On Bellow

• Saul Bellow, Tony Tanner (1965) (see also his City of Words )
• Saul Bellow, Malcolm Bradbury (1982)
• Saul Bellow: Modern Critical Views, Harold Bloom (Ed.) (1986)
• Handsome Is: Adventures with Saul Bellow, Harriet Wasserman (1997)
• Bellow: A Biography, James Atlas (2000)
• 'Even Later' and 'The American Eagle' in Martin Amis, The War Against Cliché (2001) are celebratory. The latter essay is also found in the Everyman's Library edition of Augie March.
• 'Saul Bellow's comic style': James Wood, The Irresponsible Self (2004).(Online extract)