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06/04/2005
American writer Saul Bellow dies, aged 89
Saul Bellow, considered to be one of America's greatest novelists in the years after World War II, has died aged 89.
A spokesman for the Bellow family said that the writer had been in declining health, but was "wonderfully sharp to the end".
Bellow's wife and daughter were at his side when he died at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Bellow, who was the author of novels including The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog and Henderson the Rain King, was the first writer to win the National Book Award three times.
In 1976, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Humboldt's Gift. The same year he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, cited for his "human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture".
Bellow was born in 1915 in Canada to Russian immigrants but he and his family moved to Chicago when he was nine. It was to become the city with which his work would become most closely associated.
Although his funeral will be private, a public memorial for Bellow is being planned.
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