Saul Bellow

While the work of contemporaries such as Saul Bellow and Phillip Roth brims with characters and crisis cribbed, often defiantly, from their biographies, Vonnegut's only autobiographical novel, "Slaughterhouse Five," tells us more about an imaginary species of space aliens than the horrors the author endured during the firebombing of Dresden.

Boston.com Most Popular 2009

Yet, out of this far-sighted programme emerged a generation of American artistic talent, including the painters Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock and writers such as Saul Bellow, John Cheever and Ralph Ellison.

New Statesman 2009

As Saul Bellow once wrote, "A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."

David Suissa: Nakba Is in the Eyes of the Beholder David Suissa 2011

Saul Bellow would end up describing the sexual revolution as "a 30-year disaster."

Thinking Inside the Box Henry Allen 2011

LL: I've always wanted to capture moments, sort of "Seize the Day," which comes from Saul Bellow's title for his novella.

John Seed: Lucinda Luvaas: Loving the City From a Distance John Seed 2011

His fiction is afflicted with the same narcissism, and that is why, despite the success of "Catch-22" 1961 and the ambition of the novels that followed, Heller's literary stature never matched that of Saul Bellow, Philip Roth or John Updike.

Major Minor Alec Solomita 2011

Saul Bellow nabbed the 1976 Pulitzer for Humboldt's Gift, but not for earlier novels such as The Adventures of Augie March.

Dave Astor: A Factual History of Pulitzer-Winning Fiction Dave Astor 2012

Hugh Grant is a charming and handsome man, but the battered face of Saul Bellow impresses me more.

The Leveson inquiry will miss the real scandal | Nick Cohen 2011

Saul Bellow nabbed the 1976 Pulitzer for Humboldt's Gift, but not for earlier novels such as The Adventures of Augie March.

Dave Astor: A Factual History of Pulitzer-Winning Fiction Dave Astor 2012

"A man's life is not a business," Saul Bellow wrote.

Carlos Tevez affair takes hammer to love, trust and loyalty | Paul Hayward 2011