Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow was born in in Lachine, Quebec to Russian immigrants. When he was nine, his family moved to Chicago, which would become a backdrop for many of his novels. Bellow completed his first novel, Dangling Man, in 1944 while serving as a merchant marine in WWII. In 1948, Bellow received a Guggenheim Fellowship that allowed him to move to Paris, where he stated writing The Adventures of Augie March. After living in NYC for a number of years, Bellow returned to Chicago in 1962 to work as a professor at the University of Chicago, where he would remain for more than 30 years. Bellow hit the bestseller list with his novel Herzog in 1964 and received the Nobel Prize in literature in 1976.