THE LIFE OF A MASTER, TOLD IN LETTERS Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, three National Book awards, and the Nobel Prize in Literature, Saul Bellow wrote marvellously acute, unsparing, tender, ferocious, hilarious, and wise letter throughout his long life (1915-2005). Friends, lovers, wives, colleagues, and fans all cross these pages. But it wasn't true. Saul Bellow's life in letters,as presented in correspondence spanning eight decades, delivers a revealingportrait of the novelist and his age. At the moment I have no handle of any sort. Benjamin Taylor—Leo Robson of the New Statesman writes, There is also a generous helping of contempt, the sine qua non of literary letters.To Cynthia Ozick, one of the few younger writers he admired, he wrote: “It gives me something less than pleasure to be listed with the Styrons, … Letters Saul Bellow, edited by Benjamin TaylorPenguin, 571pp, £30"Of course I am not a Freudian," Saul Bellow wrote to Philip Roth in 1974. I can neither be picked up nor put down." “Saul Bellow: Letters is a treasure trove. Saul Bellow was a dedicated correspondent until a couple of years before his death, and his letters, spanning eight decades, show us a twentieth-century life in all its richness and complexity. "For one fierce interval I was a Reichian. Friends, lovers, wives, colleagues, and fans all cross these pages. Saul Bellow's letters are to be published later this month, five years after his death. Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; 10 June 1915 – 5 April 2005) was a Canadian-American writer.For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. It’s fascinating to see one of our great American writers take form.” —Nathan Englander “Magnificent… The man is all here in this book, in his stunning, almost baffling plenitude. Product Information. Saul Bellow recorded that ancient memory, stirred to it by play with his little daughter, in a letter on Feb. 19, 2004, when he was 88 years old. 5.0 out of 5 stars Saul Bellow - Letters - Edited by Benjamin Taylor (Viking) Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2011 Despite his Canadian origins (and Russian heritage), Saul Bellow was widely viewed as one of the leading voices on the American condition. A never-before-published collection of letters - an intimate self-portrait as well as the portrait of a century. Yet, despite these plenitudes, Saul Bellow was missing on that platform and in that auditorium teeming with admirers—as much missing there as, clothed in living flesh, he is an insistent presence in the letters. Saul Bellow was a dedicated correspondent until a couple of years before his death, and his letters, spanning eight decades, show us a twentieth-century life in all its richness and complexity. In his review of the newly published correspondence of Saul Bellow’s—Saul Bellow: Letters, ed. Bellow’s letters are one of Bellow’s greatest books. Well-Written 'Letters': Saul Bellow Shows Us How The famed writer doled out hundreds of letters to friends, enemies, multiple wives, ex-wives …