[Deathwatch] Saul Bellow, Nobel-, Pulitzer-winning writer, 89

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Nobel, Pulitzer winner Saul Bellow dies
>From Lauren Rivera
CNN

Tuesday, April 5, 2005 Posted: 10:08 PM EDT (0208 GMT)

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/books/04/05/saul.bellow/index.html

(CNN) -- American Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Saul Bellow
died Tuesday evening at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts, his
literary agent said. He was 89.

Andrew Wylie cited no official cause of death but said Bellow was "old
and failing."

The Jewish-American writer's works widely influenced American
literature after World War II.

Three of his works -- "The Adventures of Augie March," "Herzog" and
"Mr. Sammler's Planet" -- won the National Book Award for best fiction
in the United States.

Bellow's works often involved the anti-hero, and it was Bellow who
"took care of him," as the Swedish Academy pointed out in its
presentation speech for his Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976.

In spite of their endless defeats, Bellow's anti-heroes "triumph
nonetheless, they are heroes nonetheless, since they never give up the
realm of values in which man becomes human," the speech said.

His novel "Humboldt's Gift" was awarded the Pulitzer Prize that same
year.

He was born in Lachine, Quebec, a suburb of Montreal, in 1915, and was
raised in Chicago.

He attended the University of Chicago and received his bachelor's
degree with honors in sociology and anthropology from Northwestern
University in 1937.

He did graduate work at the University of Wisconsin and served in the
Merchant Marine during World War II.

Bellow is survived by his wife Janis and daughter, Wylie said.