Saul Bellow
Noun
Meaning
United States author (born in Canada) whose novels influenced American literature after World War II (1915-2005)
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His friend and protege Philip Roth has said of him, "The backbone of 20th-century American literature has been provided by two novelists—William Faulkner and Saul Bellow.
When you put him up against American Jewish contemporaries such as Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer and Philip Roth, what makes Wouk stand out is his unabashed Jewishness.
Vivian Gornick was the first to attack his misogyny; David Foster Wallace saw him as an egotistical dinosaur, part of an obsolete pack that included Saul Bellow and John Updike.
Saul Bellow, It All Adds Up, first published 1994, Penguin edition 2007, pp. 295–96.