Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow was born in Quebec in 1915 and moved to Chicago with his family when he was nine years old. He grew up in Chicago, went to high school there, and began his college career. He attended the University of Chicago and received his bachelor’s degree from North-western University with honours in Sociology and Anthropology. 

He has written quite a number of books, some of which are: Dangling Man (1944), The Victim (1947) The Adventures of Augie March (1953), Seize the Day (1956), Herzog (1964), A Theft (1989) Something to Remember Me By (1991). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976. He has also won the Pulitzer Prize, three National Book Awards, the National Medal of Arts, and the 1990 National Book Foundation Medal for distinguished contribution to American letters.