Humboldt's Gift
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| Author | Saul Bellow |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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| Released | 1975 |
Humboldt's Gift is a 1975 novel by Saul Bellow, which won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and contributed to Bellow's winning the Nobel Prize in Literature the same year.
The novel, which Bellow intended to be a short story, is a roman à clef about Bellow's friendship with the poet Delmore Schwartz.
| Preceded by The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara |
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1976 |
Succeeded by no award given |
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| Works by Saul Bellow |
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| Novels: Dangling Man • The Victim • The Adventures of Augie March • Seize the Day • Henderson the Rain King • Herzog • Humboldt's Gift • The Dean's December • More Die of Heartbreak • A Theft • The Bellarosa Connection • The Actual • Ravelstein Short Stories : Mosby's Memoirs • Him with His Foot in His Mouth • Something to Remember Me By: Three Tales • Collected Stories • |
