To Jerusalem and Back

Saul Bellow

1976

Before I left Chicago, the art critic Harold Rosenberg said to me, “Going to Jerusalem? And wondering whether people will talk freely? You’ve got to be kidding, they’ll talk your head off.” He spoke as a Jew to a Jew about Jewish powers of speech. In flight, if the door of your plane comes open you are sucked into space. Here in Jerusalem, when you…

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Saul Bellow

1915–2005
Born in Montreal, novelist Saul Bellow moved to Chicago when he was nine; that city became the background for many of his works. A professor of English at Boston University and other institutions, Bellow wrote best-selling and critically acclaimed novels, short stories, memoirs, plays, and novellas. He received the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature, a Pulitzer Prize, three National Book Awards, and a Presidential Medal.

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