Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; 10 June 1915 – 5 April 2005) was a Canadian-American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for 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 1,201,338 page views. His biography is available in 90 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 82 in 2019). Saul Bellow is the 481st most popular writer (down from 469th in 2019), the 18th most popular biography from Canada (down from 16th 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."