Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow was born in 1915 in Lachine, Quebec, Canada, to Russian Jewish immigrant parents and raised in Chicago, becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1941. A Canadian-American writer, he died in 2005 and is renowned for novels like The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, and Humboldt's Gift. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976, the Pulitzer Prize, three National Book Awards for Fiction, and the National Medal of Arts.