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Saul Bellow
June 10, 1915 to April 15, 2005
Born in Lachine, Quebec, Canada & Died in Brookline, Massachusetts
Canadian born American novelist, Bellow won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel for literature.
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"I believe people never knew how to observe one another so damagingly as they do now."
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Bibliography
Novels
Dangling Man - 1944
The Victim - 1947
The Adventures of Augie March - 1953
Seize the Day - 1956
Henderson the Rain King - 1959
Herzog - 1964
Mr. Sammler's Planet - 1970
Humboldt's Gift - 1975
The Dean's December - 1982
More Die of Heartbreak - 1987
A Theft - 1989
The Bellarosa Connection - 1989
Something to Remember Me By: Three Tales - 1991 (compilation of preceding 2 books with one new story)
The Actual - 1997
Ravelstein - 2000
Short Story Collections
Mosby's Memoirs - 1968
Him with His Foot in His Mouth - 1984
Collected Stories - 2001
Nonfiction
To Jerusalem and Back: A Personal Account - 1976
It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future - 1994
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Author Profiles
- Westlake, Donald - Bibliography
- Crane, Hart
- Pyle, Ernie
- Whitman, Walt
- Ferber, Edna
- Bowen, Elizabeth
- Barnes, Linda
- Salinger, J. D.
- Parker, Robert B.
- Thoreau, Henry David
- Miller, Henry
- Machiavelli, Niccolo
- King, Stephen
- London, Jack
- Abbey, Edward
- Asimov, Isaac
- Ballard, J. G.
- Author Index
- Morley, Christopher
- Morison, Samuel Eliot
- Ambrose, Stephen
- Hunter, Evan
- Carr, John Dickson
- Adams, Brooks
- Adams, Henry
- Adams, Richard
- Agee, James
- Alcott, Louisa May
- Anthony, Piers
- Austen, Jane
Great Quotations
- Jack London on the advantages of not being a cabbage
Author's Name Jack London Type of Quote Animals
Change"The advantage of the animal over the vegetable kingdom is obvious. The cabbage, should its environment tend to become worse, must live it out, or die; the rabbit may move on in quest of a better." - Edith Wharton on Secrets and Age
Author's Name Edith Wharton He was growing old, and beginning to need rest and an imperturbed spirit. He did not want the secrets of other lives thrust upon him. - Edith Wharton on Weddings
Author's Name Edith Wharton She says a wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth. Nice thing for a woman to say to her husband! - James Tiptree, Jr., (Alice B. Sheldon)
Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature.
- Truman Capote
Any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person's nature; only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves.
- Jack London
"The advantage of the animal over the vegetable kingdom is obvious. The cabbage, should its environment tend to become worse, must live it out, or die; the rabbit may move on in quest of a better."
- Donald Westlake
"A gun is so clean, so impersonal. It separates you, just a bit, from the event."
- John Gregory Dunne
"Being as rich as my father had made me allowed me to nourish a small talent for irony, irony being the vehicle by which the essentially second rate arrive at some kind of superiority."
- G.K. Chesterton
"If we boast of our best, we must repent of our worst. Otherwise patriotism will be a very poor thing indeed."
- Jorge Luis Borges
"It is like two bald men fighting over a comb."
Jorge Luis Borges on the Falklands war.
- Stephen King
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