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Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow was a highly acclaimed author, born in Lachine, Quebec in 1915 and raised in Chicago. He attended the University of Chicago and received his Bachelor's degree from Northwestern University in 1937, with honors in sociology and anthropology. Bellow's graduate work at the University of Wisconsin was interrupted by his service in the Merchant Marines during World War II.

Bellow's writing career began with the publication of his first novel, "Dangling Man," in 1944, followed by "The Victim" in 1947. His breakthrough novel, "The Adventures of Augie March," was published in 1953 and won the National Book Award for fiction in 1954. Over the course of his career, Bellow wrote numerous critically acclaimed novels, including "Seize The Day" (1956), "Henderson The Rain King" (1959), "Herzog" (1964), "Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories" (1968), and "Mr. Sammler's Planet" (1970). He also wrote non-fiction, with "To Jerusalem and Back: A Personal Account" published in 1976.

Bellow's accolades include being the first American to receive the International Literary Prize for "Herzog" in 1965, being awarded the Croix de Chevalier des Arts et Lettres by France in 1968, and receiving the B'nai B'rith Jewish Heritage Award for "excellence in Jewish literature" in the same year. In 1976, he was awarded the America's Democratic Legacy Award of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, and the Nobel Prize for Literature. He is the only novelist to receive three National Book Awards, for "The Adventures of Augie March," "Herzog," and "Mr. Sammler's Planet." Bellow was also a playwright, with productions on Broadway in 1966, and contributed fiction and criticism to various magazines and literary quarterlies. He taught at several universities, including Bard College, Princeton University, and the University of Minnesota, and was a member of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.
Standalone Novels
# Title Year
1 Dangling Man 1944
2 The Victim 1947
3 The Adventures of Augie March 1953
4 Seize the Day 1956
5 Henderson the Rain King 1959
6 Herzog 1964
7 Mr. Sammler's Planet 1970
8 Humboldt's Gift 1975
9 The Dean's December 1982
10 More Die of Heartbreak 1987
11 A Theft 1989
12 The Actual 1997
13 Ravelstein 2000
Short Stories/Novellas
# Title Year
1 The Bellarosa Connection 1989
2 Leaving the Yellow House 2018
Plays
# Title Year
1 The Last Analysis 1965
Collections
# Title Year
1 Mosby's Memoirs 1968
2 The Portable Saul Bellow 1974
3 Him With His Foot in His Mouth 1984
4 Something to Remember Me By 1990
5 Collected Stories 1992
6 Novels 1944–1953 2003
7 Novels 1956–1964 2007
8 Novels 1970–1982 2010
9 Novels 1984–2000 2015
10 There Is Simply Too Much to Think About (With: Benjamin Taylor) 2015
11 There Is Simply Too Much to Think about 2015
Non-Fiction Books
# Title Year
1 Recent American Fiction 1963
2 Technology and the Frontiers of Knowledge 1974
3 To Jerusalem and Back 1976
4 Summations 1987
5 It All Adds Up 1994
6 Conversations with Saul Bellow 1994
7 Letters (With: Benjamin Taylor) 2010
8 Letters 2010
9 Settling My Accounts Before I Go Away 2013
Literary Conversations Books
# Title Year
1 Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges 1969
2 Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz 1981
3 Conversations with Graham Greene 1983
4 Conversations with Eudora Welty 1985
5 Conversations with Walker Percy 1985
6 Conversations With Isaac Bashevis Singer 1985
7 Conversations with William Styron 1985
8 Conversations with Malcolm Cowley 1986
9 Conversations with Lillian Hellman 1986
10 Conversations with Tennessee Williams 1986
11 Conversations with Ernest Hemingway 1986
12 Conversations with Katherine Anne Porter 1987
13 Truman Capote: Conversations 1987
14 Conversations with Flannery O'Connor 1987
15 Conversations with Peter Taylor 1987
16 Conversations with Arthur Miller 1987
17 Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut 1988
18 Conversations with Edward Albee 1988
19 Conversations with Erskine Caldwell 1988
20 Conversations with Norman Mailer 1988
21 Conversations with Robert Graves 1989
22 Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates 1989
23 Conversations with Shelby Foote 1989
24 Conversations with Robertson Davies 1989
25 Conversations with James Baldwin 1989
26 Conversations with John Gardner 1990
27 Conversations with Richard Wilbur 1990
28 Conversations with Tom Wolfe 1990
29 Conversations with Raymond Carver 1990
30 Conversations with Eugene O'Neill 1990
31 Conversations with Reynolds Price 1991
32 Conversations with Bernard Malamud 1991
33 Conversations with Elizabeth Spencer 1991
34 Conversations with Nikki Giovanni 1992
35 Conversations With Thornton Wilder 1992
36 Conversations with Robert Coles 1992
37 Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher 1992
38 More Conversations with Walker Percy 1993
39 Conversations with Richard Wright 1993
40 Conversations with Paul Bowles 1993
41 Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris 1994
42 Conversations with Amiri Baraka 1994
43 Conversations with Toni Morrison 1994
44 Conversations with Saul Bellow 1994
45 Conversations with Henry Miller 1994
46 Conversations with Ernest Gaines 1995
47 Conversations with Ralph Ellison 1995
48 Conversations with Chester Himes 1995
49 Conversations with Susan Sontag 1995
50 Conversations with Ishmael Reed 1995
51 Conversations with Derek Walcott 1996
52 More Conversations with Eudora Welty 1996
53 Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop 1996
54 Conversations with Pauline Kael 1996
55 Conversations with V. S. Naipaul 1997
56 Conversations with N. Scott Momaday 1997
57 Conversations with Chinua Achebe 1997
58 Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston 1998
59 Conversations with Denise Levertov 1998
60 Conversations With William Faulkner 1999
61 Conversations with E. L. Doctorow 1999
62 Conversations With John Fowles 1999
63 Conversations with Salman Rushdie 2000
64 Conversations with William S. Burroughs 2000
65 Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko 2000
66 Conversations with Chaim Potok 2001
67 Conversations with Richard Ford 2001
68 Conversations with Christopher Isherwood 2001
69 Conversations with Mary Gordon 2002
70 Conversations with Jim Harrison 2002
71 Conversations with Clarence Major 2002
72 Conversations with Margaret Walker 2002
73 Conversations with Erica Jong 2002
74 Elie Wiesel: Conversations 2002
75 Joseph Brodsky: Conversations 2003
76 Conversations with Rita Dove 2003
77 Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald 2003
78 Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks 2003
79 Conversations with Stanley Kaufmann 2003
80 Conversations with Gloria Naylor 2004
81 Conversations with Audre Lorde 2004
82 Conversations with Ray Bradbury 2004
83 Conversations With John le Carré 2004
84 Conversations with Isaac Asimov 2005
85 Conversations with Don DeLillo 2005
86 Conversations with Gore Vidal 2005
87 Conversations with Robert Penn Warren 2005
88 Conversations with Jack Kerouac 2005
89 Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez 2005
90 Conversations with Thomas McGuane 2006
91 Conversations with Larry Brown 2007
92 Conversations with Sonia Sanchez 2007
93 Conversations with Wendell Berry 2007
94 Conversations with Leon Forrest 2007
95 Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro 2008
Saul Bellow Anthologies
# Title Year
1 Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews 1957
2 Travel Writing 1984
3 Granta 10 1984
4 Great Jewish Short Stories 1985
5 The Oxford Book of American Short Stories 1992
6 The Good Parts 2000
7 Wonderful Town 2000
8 Writers on Writing 2001
9 Writers: Their Lives and Works 2018