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Article: THE LITERARY LARGESSE OF THE LATE SAUL BELLOW.(CNY)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- June 9, 2005
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Byline: Laura Ryan Staff writer
Friday would have marked Saul Bellow's 90th birthday.
Although the celebrated novelist, who died April 5, never reached that milestone anniversary, he did rack up a Nobel Prize, three National Book Awards and a Pulitzer Prize during his time on earth. He also watched nearly everything he wrote between 1958 and 1987 loiter on The New York Times best-seller lists.
Considered one of the greatest American novelists of the 20th century, Bellow wrote about the modern urban dweller, setting many of his stories in the city of his youth, Chicago. His characters are generally Jewish-American antiheroes caught up in ...