Saul bellow

Listen to Saul Bellow's talk from a Portland Arts & Lectures event in 1994, hosted by Literary Arts in Portland, Oregon.

Canadian-American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only writer to win the National Book Award for Fiction three times // photo credit: everyday-i-show.livejournal.com

Saul Bellow

Saul BELLOW

Louis Menand on Zachary Leader’s “The Life of Saul Bellow,” and the story of “Herzog,” Bellow’s fame-making—and vengeful—roman à clef.

Richard Brody on Saul Bellow's brief career as a film critic in the sixties.

Saul Bellow.

The answer is ‘yes’ on both counts … A terrific biography of the great Jewish-American writer is also a first-rate piece of literary criticism

Cover by Ben Shahn. Penguin Books reprint paperback (1978).

"Death disports with writers more cruelly than with the rest of humankind," Cynthia Ozick wrote in a recent issue of The New Republic. "The grave can hardly make more mute those who were voiceless when alive--dust to dust, muteness to muteness. But the silence that dogs the established writer's noisy obituary, with its boisterous shock and busy regret, is more profound than any other. "Oblivion comes more cuttingly to the writer whose presence has been felt, argued over, championed…