Saul Bellow

Born in Canada in 1915 and raised in Chicago, Saul Bellow became the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. A novelist and a playwright, Bellow attended Northwestern University where he studied sociology and anthropology. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Merchant Marines and was a war correspondent for Newsday in 1967.

A distinguished writer, Bellow has won three National Book Awards for Fiction, a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, a National Medal of Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Croix de Chevalier des Arts et Lettres, a B'nai B'rith Jewish Heritage Award, and a B'nai B'rith America's Democratic Legacy Award in addition to his Nobel Prize.

Classified as a Jewish-American writer, Bellow's writings are universal in their addressing of the modern, urban human condition.

Saul Bellow died in April 2005.

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