Saul Bellow

Canadian-American · 1915–2005

Novelist and the central figure of postwar American-Jewish fiction, whose books trade plot for the churn of an over-educated consciousness talking itself through a crisis. The Adventures of Augie March (1953) broke open a loose, exuberant, high-low American voice; Herzog (1964) turned it inward into the unsent letters of a cuckolded academic; Humboldt's Gift (1975) mixed comedy with the ruin of a poet. He won the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976, and taught for decades at the University of Chicago.

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