Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow was a Canadian-American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only writer to win the National Book Award for Fiction three times, and he received the National Book Foundation's lifetime Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 1990.
Background
- Born in
- Lachine
- Educated at
- University of ChicagoNorthwestern UniversityUniversity of Wisconsin–MadisonRoberto Clemente Community AcademyWeinberg College of Arts and Sciences
- Awards
- 🏆 O. Henry Award🏆 Nobel Prize in Literature
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart."
"A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. It tells us that for every human being there is a diversity of existences, th…"
"What is imposed on us by birth and environment is what we are called upon to overcome."
"The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, “Professor Cohen, how do I know that I exist?” The keen old prof replied, “And who is asking?"
"As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn’t make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, pai…"
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Timeline
1915
Born
Birth2005
Died
Death
Family & Connections
- spouse:
- Alexandra Bellow
- children:
- Adam Bellow
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