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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. 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 93 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 90 in 2019). Saul Bellow is the 503rd most popular writer (down from 481st in 2019), the 22nd most popular biography from Canada (down from 18th 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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  • 93

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.05

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  • 5.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Saul Bellow ranks 503 out of 5,755Before him are Nadine Gordimer, Beatrix Potter, Francesca da Rimini, Jean Paul, Al-Maʿarri, and Allen Ginsberg. After him are Héloïse, Marina Tsvetaeva, George R. R. Martin, J. M. Barrie, Rudaki, and Attar of Nishapur.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Saul Bellow ranks 22Before him are Stanley Matthews, Yitzhak Shamir, Joachim Peiper, Paul Tibbets, Aung San, and Sviatoslav Richter. After him are Fred Hoyle, Hu Yaobang, Les Paul, Curd Jürgens, Charles H. Townes, and Robert Hofstadter. Among people deceased in 2005, Saul Bellow ranks 15Before him are Paul Ricœur, Simon Wiesenthal, Arthur Miller, Rinus Michels, Pat Morita, and Zhao Ziyang. After him are Aslan Maskhadov, Omar Sívori, Rafic Hariri, Kenzō Tange, Zdzisław Beksiński, and Hans Bethe.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Saul Bellow ranks 22 out of 1,350Before him are Frederick Banting (1891), Margaret Atwood (1939), Glenn Gould (1932), Michael J. Fox (1961), David Cronenberg (1943), and Eric Berne (1910). After him are William Shatner (1931), Gilles Villeneuve (1950), Dan Aykroyd (1952), Willard Boyle (1924), Neil Young (1945), and Robert Mundell (1932).

Among WRITERS In Canada

Among writers born in Canada, Saul Bellow ranks 4Before him are Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874), Alice Munro (1931), and Margaret Atwood (1939). After him are A. E. van Vogt (1912), Brian Tracy (1944), David Morrell (1943), Shulamith Firestone (1945), David Shore (1959), Marie-Claire Blais (1939), Gabrielle Roy (1909), and Naomi Klein (1970).