Canadian writer of Jewish origin, born in Lachine, Quebec, a suburb of Montreal, considered the greatest American writer of all time, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1976). Son of Russian immigrants, when he was nine years old, his family moved from Montreal to Chicago, USA. He graduated from the University of Chicago, received the Bachelor's degree from Northwestern University (1937), with honors in sociology and anthropology, he did graduate work at the University of Wisconsin, and served at Merchant Marine during World War II. World. He dropped the s from his surname and changed his first name to Saul when he began publishing his writings in the 1940s. Dangling Man (1944), was his first novel, followed by The Victim (1947). He won a Guggenheim Fellowship (1948) and spent two years in Paris and traveling Europe, starting The Adventures of Augie March, with which he won the National Book Award for Fiction (1954). During the Arab-Israeli conflict (1967) he served as a war correspondent for Newsday.
From the beginning, he was determined to tell a different American story, to break with the sexist style of Ernest Hemingway. During his active literary life he made many admirers and won many awards, but also some enemies in their intellectual milieu such as writer Norman Mailer, critic Alfred Kazin, and biographer James Atlas. He was the first writer to win the National Book Award three times. In addition to the aforementioned (1954), he also won with Herzog (1965), his most famous book, which also gave him the International Literary Prize (1965), and with Mr. Sammler's Planet (1971). He won the Pulitzer Prize (1976) for Humboldt's Gift (1975), the same year he won the Nobel Prize for Literature, for his understanding of the human being and analysis of contemporary culture. After teaching for many years at the University of Chicago, he decided to leave the city and accept a chair at Boston University (1993). After five marriages, in December (1999) his fifth wife, Janis Freedman, gave birth to a girl, Naomi Bellow, when she was 84 years old and had three adult children.
He continued writing into his 80s and, hoping to make his work more acceptable, had his novel A Theft published as a pocketbook (1989). A master of comic melancholy in novels like Herzog and Humboldt's Gift, he died at his home, aged 89, in Brookline, Massachusetts, along with his fifth wife and daughter. Author of novels that rewarded and celebrated the fate of the soul in the modern world, he was the most acclaimed of a generation of Jewish writers who emerged after World War II, among them Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth and Cynthia Ozick, and recent works include The Current (1997), a sentimental novel, and Ravelstein (2000), based on the life of his friend Allan Bloom, author of The Closing of the American Mind. His other successful works included Seize The Day (1956), Henderson The Rain King (1959), Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories (1968), To Jerusalem and Back. A Personal Account (1976), Him with His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories (1984), More Die of Heartbreak. A Novel (1987), The Bellarosa Connection. A Novella (1989) and Something to Remember Me By. Three Tales (1992).
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