Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow was born Solomon Bellows in 1915 in Lachine, Quebec, to Russian Jewish immigrant parents, and moved with his family to Chicago at the age of nine. The city became the great setting and subject of his fiction. He studied at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University, and briefly attended graduate school in anthropology at the University of Wisconsin before committing to writing. His first two novels, Dangling Man and The Victim, were accomplished but restrained works; with The Adventures of Augie March in 1953, he found the exuberant, intellectually omnivorous voice that would define his career. This author hub collects 2 works in the Canon Compass ranking, led by The Adventures of Augie March.