Henderson the Rain King (29 page)

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Saul Bellow was born in Lachine, Quebec, in 1915, and was raised in Chicago. He attended the University of Chicago, received his Bachelor's degree from Northwestern University in 1937, and did graduate work at the University of Wisconsin. He worked for a short time on the WPA Writers Project, and served in the Merchant Marine during World War II. Saul Bellow has contributed fiction to _Partisan Review, Harper's Bazaar, The New Yorker__, _Esquire,__ and the literary quarterlies. His criticism has appeared in _The New York Times Book Review, Horizon, Encounter, The New Republic, The New Leader,__ and elsewhere. He has taught at Bard College, Princeton University, and the University of Minnesota, and is at present a member of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Mr. Bellow's first novel, _Dangling Man__, was published in 1944, and his second, _The Victim__, in 1947. In 1948 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and spent a year in Paris, where he began _The Adventures of Augie March__, which won the National Book Award for fiction in 1954. Mr. Bellow's other books include _Seize__ _the Day__ (1956) and _Henderson__ _the Rain King__ (1959). Now, in his new work, _Herzog__, which became a triumphant bestseller almost overnight, Bellow emerges not only as the most intelligent novelist of his generation but as the finest stylist writing fiction in America today.