Bellow, Saul

1915 – He was born on the 10th day of June this year in Lachine, Quebec, now part of Montreal, shortly after his parents had emigrated from St. Petersburg, Russia.

1930 – He was part of the Chicago branch of the WPA Writer's Project, which included Chicago literary luminaries as Richard Wright and Nelson Algren.

1944 – During World War II, he joined the merchant marine and during his service, he completed his first novel, "Dangling Man."

1953 – He wrote most of his best-known novel, “The Adventures of Augie” in March of this year.

1976 - He won the Nobel Prize in Literature this year.

1988 – He won the National Medal of Arts.

1993 – He moved from Chicago to Brookline, Massachusetts.

2005 – He died in Massachusetts at age 89. He is buried at the Jewish cemetery in Brattleboro, Vermont.
 

• "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something."
• "A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."
• "If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things."
• "The worst of all deceptions is self-deception."
• "The part can never be well unless the whole is well."