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Article: A Chicagoan, born & bred.(Review)
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- February 23, 2001
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Bellow
A Biography
James Atlas
Random House, $35, 686 pp.
James Atlas's long-awaited biography of Saul Bellow has been more than a decade in the making. Although ambitiously conceived, Bellow deals more satisfactorily with the author's life than with his art. Indeed, it contains more than most readers will want to know about Bellow's many wives and girlfriends. There is also much new information about Bellow's close male friendships, which have been just as fraught as his relations with women, and about the nuts and bolts of his literary career.
Atlas's emphasis on the material and matrimonial side of Bellow's life has disposed some reviewers to ...