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Saul Bellow

1915 - 2005

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Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; June 10, 1915 – April 5, 2005) 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.In the words of the Swedish Nobel Committee, his writing exhibited "the mixture of rich picaresque novel and subtle analysis of our culture, of entertaining adventure, drastic and tragic episodes in quick succession interspersed with philosophic conversation, all developed by a commentator with a witty tongue and penetrating insight into the outer and inner complications that drive us to act, or prevent us from acting, and that can be called the dilemma of our age." His best-known works include The Adventures of Augie March, Henderson the Rain King, Herzog, Mr. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Saul Bellow has received more than 1,870,397 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."

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  • 65.13

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 98

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.02

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.29

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Notable Works

Seize the day
Jews
1956
Dangling man
1944
Herzog
Fiction
Saul Bellow's Herzog is part confessional, part exorcism, and a wholly unique achievement in postmodern fiction. Is Moses Herzog losing his mind? His formidable wife Madeleine has left him for his best friend, and Herzog is left alone with his whirling thoughts - yet he still sees himself as a survivor, raging against private disasters and the myriad catastrophes of the modern age. In a crumbling house which he shares with rats, his head buzzing with ideas, he writes frantic, unsent letters to friends and enemies, colleagues and famous people, the living and the dead, revealing the spectacular workings of his labyrinthine mind and the innermost secrets of his troubled heart. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Malcolm Bradbury 'Spectacular ... surely Bellow's greatest novel' Malcolm Bradbury 'A masterpiece ... Herzog's voice, for all its wildness and strangeness and foolishness, is the voice of a civilization, our civilization' The New York Times Book Review
1964
The adventures of Augie March
1953
Henderson, the rain king
1958

Page views of Saul Bellows by language

Over the past year Saul Bellow has had the most page views in the with 229,957 views, followed by Italian (22,865), and Spanish (15,467). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Kazakh (216.43%), Hakka (200.72%), and Cornish (127.61%)

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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