Editors: The Best from Five Decades

Saul Bellow, Keith Botsford

Toby Press, 2001 - Literature, Modern - 1119 pages

In over 1,100 pages of first-class writing, the reader will find stimulating texts by Martin Amis, Saul Bellow, John Berryman, Keith Botsford, G.V. Desani, Herbert Gold, Mark Harris, Arthur Miller, S.J. Perelman, Philip O'Connor, and many more. Plus fascinating, hither to unseen writing by D.H. Lawrence, Louis Guilloux and Victor Hugo. Little in this anthology has been published before in book form.

About the author

Saul Bellow was born in Lachine, Quebec, Canada on June 10, 1915. He attended the University of Chicago, received a Bachelor's degree in sociology and anthropology from Northwestern University in 1937, and did graduate work at the University of Wisconsin. He taught at several universities including the University of Minnesota, Princeton University, the University of Chicago, New York University, and Boston University. His first novel, Dangling Man, was published in 1944. His other works include The Victim, Seize the Day, Henderson the Rain King, Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories, To Jerusalem and Back: A Personal Account, Him with His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories, More Die of Heartbreak, and Something to Remember Me By. He received numerous awards including the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Humboldt's Gift, the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature, and three National Book Awards for fiction for The Adventures of Augie March in 1954, Herzog in 1964, and Mr. Sammler's Planet in 1970. Also a playwright, he wrote The Last Analysis and three short plays, collectively entitled Under the Weather, which were produced on Broadway in 1966. He died on April 5, 2005.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Editors: The Best from Five Decades
• Editors: Saul Bellow, Keith Botsford
• Compiled by: Keith Botsford
• Contributor: Sassan Tabatabai
• Publisher: Toby Press, 2001
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Apr 24, 2008
• ISBN: 1902881354, 9781902881355
• Length: 1119 pages