Saul Bellow (1915 - 2005) - photo 1

Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow, real name Solomon Bellows, is a Jewish American writer and Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize winner.

Sol Bellow was born in Canada to Jewish immigrant parents from St. Petersburg, Russia, and grew up in Chicago. He attended the University of Chicago and Northwestern University, majoring in anthropology and sociology. Chicago was the setting for many of his novels of the 1970s and 1980s. In 1993, he took a position in the English Department at Boston University.

Bellow wrote his first book, The Dangling Man (1944), while serving in the Merchant Marine during World War II, and he published the novel The Victim in 1947. Saul Bellow is considered one of the most important Jewish American writers who wrote after World War II. Like his predecessors, he offers a Jewish perspective on the themes of alienation and otherness in the difficult postwar era of fragmentation, translating the Yiddish American experience into English.

Bellow has received the world's highest honors for his works. In 1954, his novel The Adventures of Augie March won the National Book Award for fiction. In 1975, the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Humboldt Gift; the International Herzog Literary Award; and the Croix de Chevalier des Arts et Lettres, France's highest literary honor for non-citizens. In 1976, Bellow was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Date and place of birt:10 june 1915, Québec, Canada
Date and place of death:5 april 2005, Brookline, USA
Period of activity: XX, XXI century
Specialization:Educator, Writer
Art style:Post War Art, Realism

Creators Post War Art

Hermine Overbeck-Rohte (1869 - 1937)
Hermine Overbeck-Rohte
1869 - 1937
John Currin (1962)
John Currin
1962
Gustave Le Senechal De Kerdreoret (1840 - 1933)
Gustave Le Senechal De Kerdreoret
1840 - 1933
Sarah Purser (1848 - 1943)
Sarah Purser
1848 - 1943
Adolf Behrman (1876 - 1943)
Adolf Behrman
1876 - 1943
Rene Char (1907 - 1988)
Rene Char
1907 - 1988
Robert Parlow (1835 - 1901)
Robert Parlow
1835 - 1901
John Glover (1767 - 1849)
John Glover
1767 - 1849
Rudi Stolle (1919 - 1996)
Rudi Stolle
1919 - 1996
Rosina Wachtmeister (1939)
Rosina Wachtmeister
1939
Ernest Howard Shepard (1879 - 1976)
Ernest Howard Shepard
1879 - 1976
Erwin Kettemann (1897 - 1971)
Erwin Kettemann
1897 - 1971
David Bles (1821 - 1899)
David Bles
1821 - 1899
John Kacere (1920 - 1999)
John Kacere
1920 - 1999
Theodor Aksentovich (1859 - 1938)
Theodor Aksentovich
1859 - 1938
Don Troiani (1949)
Don Troiani
1949
× Create a Search Subscription