Saul Bellow

Also known as Solomon Bellows

Canadian-American writer (1915–2005)

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Saul Bellow was a Canadian-American novelist (1915–2005) widely considered one of the most important American writers of the 20th century. His works, which often explored the inner lives of ordinary men struggling with meaning and identity in modern life, earned him numerous prestigious awards including the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976.

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Born: 10 June 1915
Died: 5 April 2005
Works: 360

Top works

Nelson Algren's own book of lonesome monsters
Planeta m-ra Sėmmlera
Seize the Day (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
Herzog (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
Jesse Reichek

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1915-06-10
Active to: 2005-04-05

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Listeners: 114
Total plays: 1,209

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5 total works indexed

Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction by Locally Linear Embedding
· 2000 · cited 11,497x
The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,177x
Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines
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UMAP: Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection
· 2018 · cited 9,049x
A general method applicable to the search for similarities in the amino acid sequence of two proteins
· 1970 · cited 8,198x

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Quotes

“Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.”
“There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.”
“Conquered people tend to be witty.”
“All human accomplishment has the same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination. It converts to actual. It sustains, it alters, it redeems!”
“We are all such accidents. We do not make up history and culture. We simply appear, not by our own choice. We make what we can of our condition with the means available. We must accept the mixture as we find it — the impurity of it, the tragedy of it, the hope of it.”
“We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals.”

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Commons category: Saul Bellow
date of birth: 1915-07-10
date of death: 2005-04-05
name in native language: Saul Bellow
birth name: Solomon Bellows

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Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; June 10, 1915 – April 5, 2005) was a Canadian-American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the 1976 Nobel Prize in 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 National Book 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.