The Life of Saul Bellow

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Saul Bellow was the most decorated writer in American history, the winner, among other awards, of the Nobel Prize for Literature, three National Book Awards, and the Pulitzer Prize. The Life of Saul Bellow by the acclaimed scholar and literary historian Zachary Leader will mark the centenary of Bellow's birth as well as the tenth anniversary of his death. Leader has been granted unprecedented access to Bellow's papers, including much previously restricted material. He has conducted interviews with over 150 of Bellow's relatives, close friends, colleagues, and lovers, a number of whom have never spoken to researchers before. Through detailed exploration of Bellow's writings, and the private history that informed them, Leader chronicles a singular life in letters, offering original and nuanced accounts not only of the novelist's development and rise to eminence, but of his many identities as writer, polemicist, husband, father, Chicagoan, American, Jew.