Saul Bellow (June 10, 1915 - April 5, 2005), was an acclaimed Canadian-born American Jewish writer. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976 and the National Medal of Arts in 1988 .
He is best known for writing novels that investigate isolation, spiritual dissociation, and the possibilities of human awakening. While on a Guggenheim fellowship in Paris, he wrote most of his best-known novel, The Adventures of Augie March.
