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Saul Bellow won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1976, and the National Book Award for Fiction three times (1954, 1965, and 1971), making him the only writer to win that last award three times. He also received the National Medal of Arts in 1988 and the National Book Foundation's lifetime Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 1990.
Saul Bellow was born Solomon Bellows on the 10th of June, 1915, in Lachine, Quebec, Canada, to parents who had emigrated from Saint Petersburg, Russia. When he was nine, his family moved to the Humboldt Park neighborhood on the West Side of Chicago, the city that became the backdrop of many of his novels.
Bellow's best-known works include The Adventures of Augie March (1953), Herzog (1964), Henderson the Rain King, Humboldt's Gift (1975), Seize the Day, Mr. Sammler's Planet, and Ravelstein (2000). The Adventures of Augie March is credited with establishing his reputation as a major author.
Philip Roth, Bellow's friend and protege, said that the backbone of 20th-century American literature was provided by two novelists, William Faulkner and Saul Bellow, and that together they were the Melville, Hawthorne, and Twain of the 20th century.
Bellow taught at numerous institutions including the University of Chicago, the University of Minnesota, Yale University, New York University, Princeton University, the University of Puerto Rico, Bard College, and Boston University. At the University of Chicago's Committee on Social Thought, he taught for more than 30 years alongside the philosopher Allan Bloom.
Saul Bellow died on the 5th of April, 2005, in Brookline, Massachusetts, at age 89. He is buried at the Jewish cemetery Shir HeHarim in Brattleboro, Vermont.