SAUL BELLOW, who died on 5 April 2005, at the age of eighty-nine, at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts, had been awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1976, and received the Pulitzer Prize, three National Book Awards, and the National Medal of Arts. No American writer has garnered more honors.
He was born in Lachine, Quebec, a suburb of Montreal, on 10 June or perhaps in July 1915, the former date, however, being the one on which Mr. Bellow usually celebrated his birthday. His family-the parents and three older children-had emigrated from Russia to Canada only two years earlier. In 1924 the Bellows moved to Chicago.
