Bellow, Saul
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Birthname | Bellows, Solomon | ||||
born on | 10 June 1915 | ||||
Place | Lachine, Quebec (CAN), 45n26, 73w40 | ||||
Timezone | EST h5w (is standard time) | ||||
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Biography
American writer. For his literary contributions, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, in 1976 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 and he received the Foundation's lifetime Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 1990.
His best-known works include The Adventures of Augie March, Henderson the Rain King, Herzog, Mr. Sammler's Planet, Seize the Day, Humboldt's Gift and Ravelstein. Widely regarded as one of the 20th century's greatest authors, Bellow has had a "huge literary influence."
Bellow was married five times, with all but his last marriage ending in divorce. In 1999, when he was 84, Bellow had a daughter, Rosie, his fourth child.
He died 5 April 2005.
Relationships
- friend relationship with Bloom, Allan (born 14 September 1930)
- friend relationship with Botsford, Keith (born 29 March 1928)
- friend relationship with Rosenfeld, Isaac (born 10 March 1918)
- parent->child relationship with Bellow, Naomi (born 23 December 1999)
Events
Source Notes
On Bellow’s birth certificate, the date of birth is listed as July 10, but subsequent biographical and reference works list his birth date as June 10, 1915. Lachine’s city hall burned down in the 1920s, and Bellow’s birth certificate was reconstructed from other documents. It is also possible that Bellow’s mother could have been going by the Jewish calendar; immigrants were habitually negligent about such details, and Jews were often unfamiliar with the Christian calendar.
Bellow told a reporter:‘My mother insisted that it was June, and I must acknowledge her claim".
Birth time unknown. Starkman rectified it to 10 June 1915 16.24.20 EST.
Categories
- Family : Relationship : Number of Marriages (Five)
- Family : Parenting : Parenting late more than 40 (age 84)
- Vocation : Writers : Fiction
- Notable : Awards : Nobel prize