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Saul Bellow, recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in Lachine, Quebec. His parents were Russian immigrants. He attended Northwestern University where he studied sociology and anthropology, and later he did graduate work at the University of Chicago. During World War II he served as a Merchant Marine. Later he taught at the University of Chicago.
Bellow was both a playwright and novelist. His first work, the novel THE DANGLING MAN, was published in 1944. His is best known for HUMBOLDT'S GIFT for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. In 1965 he won the International Literary Prize, becoming the first American to receive the honor.
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1915 He was born in Lachine, Quebec.
1924 He moved with his family to Chicago.
1933 He entered the University of Chicago.
1937 He received his bachelor's degree from Northwestern University.
1938 He began teaching at Pestalozzi-Froebel Teachers' College.
1943 He began working for the editorial department of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
1944 Dangling Man; He Served As A Merchant Marine.
1947 The Victim
1948 He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
1953 The Adventures Of Augie March
1954 The Wreckers; He won The National Book Award for Fiction.
1956 Seize The Day
1959 Henderson The Rain King
1960 Dessins, By Jesse Reichek; He became co-editor of The Noble Savage.
1962 He was appointed Professor Of The Committee Of Social Thought at The University Of Chicago.
1963 Recent American Fiction: A Lecture
1964 The Wrecker; Herzog
1965 The Last Analysis; He was awarded The International Literary Prize.
1966 Out From Under; Like You're Nobody; A Wen; Otange Souffle
1967 he served as a war correspondent for Newsday.
1968 Mosby's Memoirs, And Other Stories; He was Aawarded The Croix De Chevalier Des Arts Et Lettres.
1970 Mr. Samler's Planet
1973 Technology And The Frontiers Of Knowledge
1975 Humboldt's Gift
1976 To Jerusalem And Back; He won the Pulitzer Prize for Humboldt's Gift; He was awarded The Nobel Prize For Literature.
1977 The Actual
1982 Dean's December
1984 Him With His Foot In His Mouth And Other Stories
1987 Modernity And Its Discontents; More Die Of Heartbreak
1989 A Theft; The Bellarosa Connection
1992 Something To Remember Me By
1994 All Adds Up
1997 The Actual
2000 Ravelstein
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