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Article: Saul Bellow (1915-2005).(Media&Society)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
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- April 11, 2005
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Byline: I-Huei Go, Raquel Hecker, Rebecca Dana, Ben Smith and Marcus Baram
Saul Bellow, Nobel laureate and dean of Jewish-American fiction, passed away on Tuesday, April 5. He was 89. Bellow, in such novels as Herzog, The Adventures of Augie March, Henderson the Rain King, Mr. Sammler's Planet and, more recently, Ravelstein, examined the persistent anxieties of modern life with a romantic depth and a relentless, if bittersweet, sense of humor.
James Atlas, author of the unauthorized biography Bellow, characterized the novelist as "a difficult uncle" and recalled a man who was "very engaging, very lively, at times rather tart and intolerant. He was never ...