It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future

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In sentence after sentence, page after page, readers are offered brilliant perceptions and unusual insights into everyday life in America and the life of the mind. From political figures like Roosevelt and Khrushchev to artists like Mozart, Dostoevsky, and John Cheever; life in cities like New York, Paris and Chicago; and in a deeply personal Autobiography of Ideas, Bellow, with great humour and wisdom, records the enduring thoughts and opinions of a lifetime of observation.In sentence after sentence, page after page, readers are offered brilliant perceptions and unusual insights into everyday life in America and the life of the mind. From political figures like Roosevelt and Khrushchev to artists like Mozart, Dostoevsky, and John Cheever; life in cities like New York, Paris and Chicago; and in a deeply personal Autobiography of Ideas, Bellow, with great humour and wisdom, records the enduring thoughts and opinions of a lifetime of observation.
Saul Bellow (1915-2005) is the only novelist to receive three National book awards, for The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, and Mr. Sammler's Planet.a In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Humboldt's Gift.a The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to him in 1976 for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work. aIn 1990, Mr. Bellow was presented the National Book Award Foundation Medal for distinguished contribution to American letters. He has also received the National Medal of Arts. His books include Dangling Man (1944), The Victim (1947), The Adventures of Augie March (1953), Seize the Day (1956), Henderson the Rain King (1959), Herzog (1964), Mosby's Memoirs (1969), Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970), Humboldt's Gift (1975), To Jerusalem and Back (1976), The Dean's December (1982), Him With His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories (1984), More Die of Heartbreak (1987), A Theft (1989), The Bellarosa Connection (1989), Something to Remember Me By (1991), It All Adds Up (1994), The Actual (1997), Ravelstein (2000) and Collected Stories (2001). A longtime resident of Chicago, Bellow was living and teaching in Boston at the time of his death in 2005.