Saul Bellow |
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Born | Solomon Bellows (1915-06-10)10 June 1915 Lachine, Quebec, Canada |
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Died | 5 April 2005(2005-04-05) (aged 89) Brookline, Massachusetts, United States |
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Occupation | Writer |
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Nationality | Canadian/American |
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Alma mater | University of Chicago Northwestern University University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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Notable awards | Nobel Prize in Literature 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1976 National Medal of Arts 1988 National Book Award 1954, 1965, 1971
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Spouse | Anita Goshkin (1937–56), Alexandra (Sondra) Tschacbasov (1956–59), Susan Glassman (1961–64), Alexandra Bagdasar Ionescu Tulcea (1974–85), Janis Freedman (1989–2005) |
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Saul Bellow (June 10, 1915 – April 5, 2005) was a Canadian-American writer. He was born Solomon Bellows in Lachine, Montreal to Russian parents. He moved to Chicago, Illinois, when he was nine. He became an American citizen in 1941. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976. He wrote the books Henderson the Rain King and Herzog. He died in Brookline, Massachusetts.