Henderson the Rain King

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.