Chicago is the setting for many of Bellow’s
novels and the city where he spent much of his early life and received
his education. Born in Lachine, Quebec, he attended University
of Chicago and Northwestern and took his undergraduate degree (in
Sociology) from Northwestern in 1937. His first short story, "The
Hell It Can't," was published in the Daily Northwestern in
February, 1936. Bellow
taught at University of Minnesota, New York University, Princeton,
University
of Chicago
and Boston
University. Considered one of the great writers in American literary
history, Bellow published over twenty novels, novellas and
short
stories. He received the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Humboldt's Gift
and the 1976 Nobel Prize for Literature. Bellow returned to Northwestern
as a visiting faculty member in the English Department in 1958;
he received an honorary degree in 1962 and an Alumni
Medal
in
1988.
