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Bellowâs life and works are discussed in Robert R. Dutton, Saul Bellow, rev. ed. (1982); Ruth Miller, Saul Bellow: A Biography of the Imagination (1991), by his former student who remained a friend for many decades; James Atlas, Bellow: A Biography (2000); and Zachary Leader, The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915â1964 (2015), the first volume of a projected two-volume biography. Harriet Wasserman, Handsome Is: Adventures with Saul Bellow (1997), is a memoir by his literary agent. Greg Bellow, Saul Bellowâs Heart (2013), is a memoir by his eldest son. Critical studies include Daniel Fuchs, Saul Bellow: Vision and Revision (1984); Ellen Pifer, Saul Bellow Against the Grain (1990); Peter Hyland, Saul Bellow (1992); Marianne M. Friedrich, Character and Narration in the Short Fiction of Saul Bellow (1995); Eugene Hollahan (ed.), Saul Bellow and the Struggle at the Center (1996); Gerhard Bach and Gloria L. Cronin (eds.), Small Planets: Saul Bellow and the Art of Short Fiction (2000); Allan Chavkin (ed.), Saul Bellow (2012); and David Mikics, Bellowâs People: How Saul Bellow Made Life into Art (2016).
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Anniversary information added. | Apr 01, 2026 | ||
| Added top questions. | Mar 10, 2026 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Nov 13, 2025 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Jun 06, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: The University of Chicago Library - Behind the life and work of Saul Bellow. | Mar 07, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Michigan - Saul Bellow. | Dec 23, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Feb 15, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Chicago Literary Hall of Fame - Biography of Saul Bellow. | Feb 01, 2019 | ||
| Bibliography revised. | Sep 08, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: Amercian Society of Authors and Writers - Saul Bellow. | Oct 25, 2013 | ||
| Added photograph. | May 24, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: Fact Monster - People - Biography of Saul Bellow. | Feb 10, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: PBS - American Masters - The Adventures of Saul Bellow. | Feb 10, 2012 | ||
| Added photograph. | Dec 09, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: Jewish Virtual Library - Biography of Saul Bellow. | Sep 14, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Nobel Prize - Biography of Saul Bellow. | Sep 14, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: Fact Monster - People - Biography of Saul Bellow. | Sep 14, 2011 | ||
| Final editorial review. | Dec 16, 2010 | ||
| Mention of the publication of Saul Bellow: Letters added. | Nov 16, 2010 | ||
| Added a biography by James Atlas, a memoir by Harriet Wasserman, and two critical studies, Saul Bellow and the Struggle at the Center and Small Planets. | Nov 12, 2010 | ||
| Added new Web site: University of Groningen - Revolution to Reconstruction - Biography of Saul Bellow. | May 02, 2007 | ||
| Article revised. | Apr 07, 2005 | ||
| Article revised. | Jan 12, 2000 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Feb 23, 1999 |