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Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow 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.

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  • 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.
  • Benjamin Markovits joins Suzi to talk about road trips, basketball and Saul Bellow, and his witty, bittersweet new novel, 'The Rest of Our Lives' about a man who goes on a voyage of self-discovery across the US as he contemplates leaving his marriage.

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