American novelist Saul Bellow (1915–2005) is best known for his characterizations of the modern urban man, disaffected by society but not destroyed in spirit, in such novels as The Victim (1947), The Adventures of Augie March (1953), Herzog (1964), and Humboldt’s Gift (1975). He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976. Brought up in a Jewish household and fluent in Yiddish, he was representative of the Jewish American writers whose works became central to American literature after World War II.
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