Monday, October 25, 2021

Bellow, Saul - Brattleboro, VT

Saul Bellow
Brattleboro, VT
N 42° 50.438 W 072° 33.233

The grave of Pulitizer and Nobel Prize winning Canadian-American author Saul Bellow is located in the Shir He Harim Jewish Cemetery section of Morningside Cemetery in Brattleboro, VT. His grave is marked by a larger, upright, granite, family monument and a horizontal ground level monument. The family monument is inscribed with the family name BELLOW. A dado in the lower left corner is inscribed in Hebrew and English. The English inscription is:

SAUL BELLOW
WRITER
JUNE 10, 1915 - APR. 5, 2005



The horizontal ground marker is has a Star of David and the inscription:

SAUL BELLOW
1915 - 2005

 

Saul Bellow was born Solomon Bellows on June 10, 1915 in Lachine, PQ, Canada.When he was 9 years old his family moved to Chicago, IL, USA. He attended the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and graduate school at the graduate work at the University of Wisconsin.

While as a merchant marine during World War II he wrote his first novel Dangling Man in 1944. He continued a writing career while he taught at several colleges and universities. During is life he published the following novels and novellas:

Dangling Man (1944)
The Victim (1947)
The Adventures of Augie March, (1953) National Book Award for Fiction
Seize the Day (1956)
Henderson the Rain King (1959)
Herzog (1964), National Book Award
Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970), National Book Award
Humboldt's Gift (1975) , winner of the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
The Dean's December (1982)
More Die of Heartbreak (1987)
A Theft (1989)
The Bellarosa Connection (1989)
The Actual (1997)
Ravelstein (2000)

In 1976, Saul Bellow was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work."

During his life he received the following awards:

1948 Guggenheim Fellowship
1954 National Book Award for Fiction
1965 National Book Award for Fiction
1971 National Book Award for Fiction
1976 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
1976 Nobel Prize in Literature
1980 O. Henry Award
1986 St. Louis Literary Award from the Saint Louis University Library Associates
1988 National Medal of Arts
1989 PEN/Malamud Award
1989 Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award
1990 National Book Foundation's lifetime Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
1997 National Jewish Book Award for The Actual
2010 Inducted into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame.

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