01921cam a2200301 i 4500 1261903737 TxAuBib 000607s2000||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 00042529 9780394585017 alk. paper 0394585011 alk. paper (OCoLC)4565 DLC eng rda DLC NLGGC BTCTA YDXCP DEBSZ OTP UBC HEBIS ZWZ OCLCF OCLCQ DEBBG OCLCO KSU UtOrBLW TxAuBib rda Atlas, James, author. Bellow : a biography / James Atlas. First edition. New York : Random House, [2000] ©2000. xiv, 686 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. ""Saul Bellow's parents fled Russia in 1913 and settled with relatives in Canada, where Saul was born. Bellow's boyhood in Quebec and Chicago, marked by his family's transient existence and struggle for economic survival (his father was a bootlegger for a time), provided inspiration for many of the memorable characters and scenes that animate his fiction. It was in Chicago that Bellow came into his own, discovering his unique voice and encountering many of the women, as well as the writers and intellectuals, who were to populate his novels and his life. Atlas draws upon Bellow's vast correspondence with Ralph Ellison, Delmore Schwartz, John Berryman, Robert Penn Warren, John Cheever, and many other luminaries in this rich and revealing account of one writer's experience of America's twentieth-century intellectual and literary history.""--Jacket. Bellow, Saul. Novelists, American 20th century Biography. Biography.