Bellow, Saul

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BELLOW, Saul

BELLOW, Saul. American (born Canada), b. 1915. Genres: Novels, Plays/Screenplays, Literary criticism and history, Novellas/Short stories. Career: Professor, Committee on Social Thought, 1962-, and Raymond W. and Martha Gruiner Distinguished Services Professor, University of Chicago. Teacher, Pestalozzi-Froebel Teachers College, Chicago, 1938-42; Member, Editorial Dept., Encyclopedia Britannica, Chicago, 1943-46; Instructor, 1946, Assistant Professor of English, 1948-49, and Associate Professor, 1954-59, Univ, of Minnesota, Minneapolis; Visiting Lecturer, New York University, NYC, 1950-52; Creative Writing Fellow, Princeton University, New Jersey, 1952-53; Member of English faculty, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, 1953-54; Founding Ed., Nobel Savage mag., Chicago, 1960-62. Publications: Dangling Man, 1944; The Victim, 1945; The Adventures of Augie March, 1953; Seize the Day, with Three Short Stories and a One-Act Play, 1956; Henderson the Rain King, 1959; (with C. Zervos) Dessins, 1960; Recent American Fiction; A Lecture, 1963; (ed.) Great Jewish Short Stories, 1963; The Last Analysis (play), 1964; Herzog, 1964 (National Book Award); Like You're Nobody: The Letters of Louis Gallo to Saul Bellow, 1961-62, plus Oedipus Schmoedipus, the Story that Started It All, 1966; Under the Weather (in U.K. as The Bellow Plays), 1966; Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories, 1968; Mr. Sammler's Planet, 1970 (National Book Award); The Future of the Moon, 1970; The Portable Saul Bellow, 1974; Technology and the Frontiers of Knowledge, 1974; Humboldt's Gift, 1975 (Pultizer Prize, 1976); To Jerusalem and Back, 1976; The Dean's December, 1982; Him with His Foot in His Mouth (short stories), 1984; More Die of Heartbreak, 1987; A Theft, 1989; The Bellarosa Connection, 1989; Something to Remember Me By: Three Tales, 1991; It All Adds Up (essays), 1994; The Actual (novella), 1997; Ravelstein (novel), 2000; Collected Fiction, 2001. Address: 1126 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637, U.S.A.

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