Saul Bellow was born Solomon Bellows in Lachine, Quebec, in 1915, to a family that had emigrated from Russia. He grew up in Chicago and studied at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University, where he took a B.A. in anthropology and sociology.
His novels include The Adventures of Augie March (1953), Herzog (1964), Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970), Humboldt's Gift (1975) and Ravelstein (2000). He won the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Pulitzer Prize in 1976, and is the only writer to have won the National Book Award for Fiction three times. He died in Brookline, Massachusetts, in 2005.
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