'Most of what we call life'

 

“Anovel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of falseones that make up most of what we call life.” – Saul Bellow

Born in Canada on this date in 1915, Bellow later became a naturalized U.S.citizen after attending the University of Chicago and Northwestern where heearned degrees in sociology and anthropology.  The fact that he was ananthropologist probably is not a surprise for his readers who findanthropological references sprinkled throughout his award-winning books.  

 

Best known for The Adventures of Augie March; Herzog; and Humboldt’s Gift, Bellow earned every major writing award includingthe Nobel Prize.  He won the NationalBook Award for Fiction 3 times (the only writer ever to do so); a LifetimeMedal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters; the National Medal ofArts; and 2 Pulitzer Prizes.

 

"The backbone of 20th-centuryAmerican literature has been provided by two novelists,” fellow novelist PhilipRoth said.  “They are William Faulknerand Saul Bellow. Together they are the Melville, Hawthorne, and Twain of the20th Century."  Bellow died in 2005. 

 

“You know, you never have to changeanything you got up in the middle of the night to write down,” Bellowsaid.  “Maybe that's why they’re calleddreams."

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