Saul Bellow (1915-2005), author of eleven novels and numerous novellas and stories, was the only novelist to receive three National Book Awards. He also received the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize in Literature, and the National Book Award Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Bellow was also the author of several plays, short stories, and critical essays. During the 1967 Arab-Israeli conflict, he served as a war correspondent for Newsday. He taught at New York University, Princeton, and the University of Minnesota, and served as chairman of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.
Brief Biography
- Date of Birth:
- June 10, 1915
- Date of Death:
- April 5, 2005
- Place of Birth:
- Lachine, Quebec, Canada
- Place of Death:
- Brookline, Massachusetts
- Education:
- University of Chicago, 1933-35; B.S., Northwestern University, 1937
