Saul Bellow letter to Dan Walden, and National Book Awards acceptance speech, 1965-1997.

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Saul Bellow letter to Dan Walden, and National Book Awards acceptance speech, 1965-1997.

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The collection consists of two items: mimeographed copy of Bellow's acceptance speech for the National Book Award in New York, 9 March 1965, one of a few copies distributed at the ceremony honoring Bellow's novel Herzog; also, typewritten letter from Bellow to Dan Walden, 26 Sept. 1997, asserting that he did read Ludwig Lewisohn, with a witty rejoinder to Socrates' quotation about the unexamined life.

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Walden, Daniel, 1922-....

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Bellow, Saul

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Saul Bellow (1915-2005), novelist. From the description of Saul Bellow drafts of nobel lecture, 1976-1977. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702194195 Author Saul Bellow was born in Montreal to Russian emigre parents; when he was nine, the family moved to Chicago, where Bellow was educated at the University of Chicago and Northwestern in Sociology and Anthropology. He began writing novels, and gradually built a respected body of work that saw him recognized as one of the most c...