I didn't want a shvitz, though I decided I'd submit to one if necessary. I'd just read "Humboldt's Gift," which had brought Bellow the Nobel Prize a few years before.

And his books are, those particularly, I would say those three books, 'Herzog,' 'Humboldt's Gift' and 'The Adventures of Augie March,' they're crammed full of story, incident, comedy, observation.

Ben Siegel, Saul Bellow, Artists and Opportunists in Saul Bellow's "Humboldt's Gift", Contemporary Literature, Vol. 19, No. 2 (Spring, 1978), pp. 143-164 ...

Besides the “Augie March” notebooks, it holds drafts of Bellow’s most acclaimed novels, including “Herzog” and “Humboldt’s Gift.” “Then there’s an unfinished Chicago book ...

A Nobel laureate, Bellow may have been the most acclaimed of a generation of Jewish writers who emerged after World War II, among them Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, and Cynthia Ozick. He was a ...

Nobel laureate Saul Bellow, a master of comic melancholy who in “Herzog,” “Humboldt’s Gift” and other novels both championed and mourned the soul’s fate in the modern world, died today ...

Born in 1915, Saul Bellow published his first novel, Dangling Man, in 1944. He would go on to write 18 books of fiction (14 novels, four story collections) which between them would win him the Puli… ...

Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Saul Bellow died Tuesday at the age of 89 at his home in Brookline, Mass. Jeffrey Brown remembers the acclaimed author.

"He hurt my mother," says Greg Bellow, Saul's oldest child from the author's first marriage. "And I didn't like that at all. I still don't like it." Greg is 71 years old now, and a psychotherapist.

R. Albert Mohler’s “Southern Baptists’ Moment of Reckoning” (Houses of Worship, May 27) reminds me of Saul Bellow’s explanation, in his novel “Humboldt’s Gift,” of why so many ...