Saul Bellow

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A very good likeness - I remember reading The Dean's December by Bellow - and Mr Sammler's Planet; I need to read more, but then there's SO MUCH to read..... and I'm getting older, so wonder if I'll ever catch up....

Thanks Robert Jones Sir... You are right Sir ......So many things to do, to read , to see.... but span of our life is very short for that...

AUTHORS OF THE WORLD ... SAUL BELLOW ... WATERCOLOUR ... 6 INCH*6 INCH ... 2015 .. Saul Bellow (10 June 1915 – 5 April 2005) was a Canadian-born American writer. For his literary contributions, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only writer to win the National Book Award for Fiction three times and he received the Foundation's lifetime Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 1990. In the words of the Swedish Nobel Committee, his writing exhibited "the mixture of rich picaresque novel and subtle analysis of our culture, of entertaining adventure, drastic and tragic episodes in quick succession interspersed with philosophic conversation, all developed by a commentator with a witty tongue and penetrating insight into the outer and inner complications that drive us to act, or prevent us from acting, and that can be called the dilemma of our age." His best-known works include The Adventures of Augie March, Henderson the Rain King, Herzog, Mr. Sammler's Planet, Seize the Day, Humboldt's Gift and Ravelstein. Widely regarded as one of the 20th century's greatest authors, Bellow has had a "huge literary influence. During World War II, Bellow joined the merchant marine and during his service he completed his first novel, Dangling Man (1944) about a young Chicago man waiting to be drafted for the war.[INFO:WIKIPEDIA]