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Saul Bellow

1915 - 2005

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Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; June 10, 1915 – April 5, 2005) was an American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Saul Bellow has received more than 2,013,114 page views. His biography is available in 98 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 93 in 2019). Saul Bellow is the 636th most popular writer (down from 502nd in 2019), the 25th most popular biography from Canada (down from 22nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Canadian Writer.

Saul Bellow is most famous for his novels "The Adventures of Augie March" and "Humboldt's Gift."

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 65.13

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 98

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.02

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Saul Bellow ranks 636 out of 7,302. Before him are Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Witold Gombrowicz, Raymond Queneau, Edward Bernays, Curzio Malaparte, and Edgar Rice Burroughs. After him are Clarice Lispector, Daphne du Maurier, William Makepeace Thackeray, Walther von der Vogelweide, Ivan Franko, and Irène Némirovsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Saul Bellow ranks 24. Before him are Joachim Peiper, Hu Yaobang, Jerome Bruner, Aung San, Sviatoslav Richter, and Fred Hoyle. After him are Curd Jürgens, Charles H. Townes, Les Paul, Robert Hofstadter, Clifford Shull, and Norman Foster Ramsey Jr.. Among people deceased in 2005, Saul Bellow ranks 24. Before him are Zhao Ziyang, Zdzisław Beksiński, Jack Kilby, Joseph Rotblat, Aslan Maskhadov, and Sister Lúcia. After him are James Callaghan, Anne Bancroft, Ernst Mayr, Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium, Pat Morita, and George F. Kennan.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Saul Bellow ranks 25 out of 1,622. Before him are Eric Berne (1910), Willard Boyle (1924), Frederick Banting (1891), Michael J. Fox (1961), Gilles Villeneuve (1950), and William Giauque (1895). After him are Neil Young (1945), Neil Peart (1952), Pierre Trudeau (1919), William Shatner (1931), Pamela Anderson (1967), and Richard E. Taylor (1929).

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Among WRITERS In Canada

Among writers born in Canada, Saul Bellow ranks 4. Before him are Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874), Alice Munro (1931), and Margaret Atwood (1939). After him are Brian Tracy (1944), A. E. van Vogt (1912), David Morrell (1943), Anne Carson (1950), Shulamith Firestone (1945), Gabrielle Roy (1909), Mazo de la Roche (1879), and Louise Penny (1958).

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