Bellow: A Biography (Modern Library)

With this masterly and original work Bellow: A Biography National Book Award nominee James Atlas gives the first definitive account of the Nobel Prize–winning author’s turbulent personal and professional life as it unfolded against the background of twentieth-century events—the Depression World War II the upheavals of the sixties—and amid all the complexities of the Jewish-immigrant experience in America which generated a vibrant new literature.. Drawing upon a vast body of original research including Bellow’s extensive correspondence with Ralph Ellison Delmore Schwartz John Berryman Robert Penn Warren John Cheever and many other luminaries of the twentieth-century literary community Atlas weaves a rich and revealing portrait of one of the most talented and enigmatic figures in American intellectual history.. Detailing Bellow’s volatile marriages and numerous tempestuous relation-ships with women publishers and friends Bellow: A Biography is a magnificent chronicle of one of the premier writers in the English language whose prize-winning works include Herzog The Adventures of Augie March and most recently Ravelstein.