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.

External links

• Nobel site with two speeches (one of which is an audio recording) & longer biography
• Annotated Bibliography of Criticism by the Saul Bellow Society
• CBC News: Tributes for author, Nobel laureate Saul Bellow
• Christopher Hitchens' Slate obituary
• New York Times obituary
• London Times obituary
• Critical appreciation and extensive list of publications
• JM Coetzee on the early novels
• 'A Neocon's Tale:' John Podhoretz (son of Norman) in The Sunday Times
• Entertaining account, by George Walden, of Bellow's meeting with Margaret Thatcher
• Another Guardian article, nominally on Ravelstein
• Review of Ravelstein followed by useful compendium of review links
• Wood's farewell (Guardian)
• Reminiscences of Bellow's editor
• Slates assortment of other writers' takes on Bellow, mostly eulogistic