Mr. Sammler's Planet [antikvár]

Saul Bellow was born in Canada in 1915 and grew up in Chicago. He attended Chicago, Northwestern and Wisconsin Universities and has a B.Sc. in anthropology. He has been a visiting lecturer at Princeton and New York Universities and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, and has alsó lived in Paris and travelled extensively in Europe. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellőwship in 1948 and has received a grant from the Ford Foundation; he is a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and was elected the third Neil Gunn Fellow by the Scottish Arts Council in 1976. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976, the first American to win the prize since John Steinbeck in 1962. The Royal Swedish Academy, which makes the award, singled out for special praise, Seize the Day, as one of the classic works of our time. In addition to stories and reviews contributed to many leading American magazines and quarterlies, Saul Bellow has alsó published Dangiing Man (1944), The Victim (1948), Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories (1951), The Adventures of Augie March (1953), which, like Herzog (1964), won the National Book Award, Seize the Day (1957), Henderson the Kain King (1959), The Last Analysis (1966), Mosby's Memoirs (1969), Mr Sammler's Vianet (1969), Humboldt's Gift (1975) and To Jerusalem and Back (1976). (Many of these have been published in Penguins.)