Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow(1915), US novelist, born in Quebec, Canada. The son of poor Russian Jewish immigrants, Bellow published his first novel, Dangling Man; in 1944 His reputation as the leading US novelist of his generation was then established by such books as Henderson the Rain King (1959), the highly autobiographical Herzog (1964), and Mr. Sammler’s Planet (1970). Many of his novels and stories concern the plight of the modern urban intellectual in the US. Later publications include The Dean’s December (1982) and something to Re-member Me By (1991). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1976.
