Saul Bellow Quote of the Week

“When we ask for advice we are usually looking for an accomplice.”

Saul Bellow (1915 – 2005)

Born in Quebec to parents of Lithuanian-Jewish ancestry, Bellow moved to Chicago as a child and was educated according to the Anthroposophist tenets of Rudolph Steiner. He attended the University of Chicago and Northwestern, and later received a Guggenheim Fellowship, which made it possible for him to move to Paris, where he wrote The Adventures of Augie March to great critical acclaim. He won a Pulitzer and received the National Book award three times. His later novels include Herzog, and the incomparable Humboldt’s Gift, both best sellers, the latter winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976. He taught writing at many universities throughout his life including Bard College and Boston University. He was married five times and had four children, the last when he was 84. He died in Brookline.

Greg Bover