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Saul Bellow

1915 - 2005

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Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; June 10, 1915 – April 5, 2005) was a Canadian-American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only writer to win the National Book Award for Fiction three times, and he received the National Book Foundation's lifetime Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 1990. In the words of the Swedish Nobel Committee, his writing exhibited "the mixture of rich picaresque novel and subtle analysis of our culture, of entertaining adventure, drastic and tragic episodes in quick succession interspersed with philosophic conversation, all developed by a commentator with a witty tongue and penetrating insight into the outer and inner complications that drive us to act, or prevent us from acting, and that can be called the dilemma of our age." His best-known works include The Adventures of Augie March, Henderson the Rain King, Herzog, Mr. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Saul Bellow is the 502nd most popular writer (up from 635th in 2019), the 22nd most popular biography from Canada (up from 25th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Canadian Writer.

Saul Bellow is most famous for his novels "The Adventures of Augie March" and "Humboldt's Gift."

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Among writers, Saul Bellow ranks 502 out of 7,302. Before him are Traudl Junge, Marie-Antoine Carême, Margaret Atwood, Natsume Sōseki, Władysław Reymont, and Wolfram von Eschenbach. After him are Lesya Ukrainka, Paul Claudel, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Hector Malot, Edmondo De Amicis, and Thomas Paine.

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Among people born in 1915, Saul Bellow ranks 24. Before him are Paul Samuelson, Clifford Shull, Billie Holiday, Hu Yaobang, Sviatoslav Richter, and John Vorster. After him are Aung San, Robert A. Dahl, Joachim Peiper, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., Jerome Bruner, and Stanley Matthews. Among people deceased in 2005, Saul Bellow ranks 19. Before him are Hans Bethe, Rinus Michels, Rafic Hariri, Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium, Omar Sívori, and Zhao Ziyang. After him are Sister Lúcia, Kenzō Tange, Anne Bancroft, Jack Kilby, Joseph Rotblat, and Ernst Mayr.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Saul Bellow ranks 22 out of 1,622. Before him are Michael J. Fox (1961), Erving Goffman (1922), Jack L. Warner (1892), Gilles Villeneuve (1950), Glenn Gould (1932), and Margaret Atwood (1939). After him are Marshall McLuhan (1911), Richard E. Taylor (1929), David Cronenberg (1943), Alice Munro (1931), Pierre Trudeau (1919), and Bertram Brockhouse (1918).

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Among WRITERS In Canada

Among writers born in Canada, Saul Bellow ranks 3. Before him are Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874), and Margaret Atwood (1939). After him are Alice Munro (1931), A. E. van Vogt (1912), David Morrell (1943), Robin Sharma (1965), Brian Tracy (1944), Antonine Maillet (1929), Shulamith Firestone (1945), E. Pauline Johnson (1861), and Harold Russell (1914).

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