Book review: The Life Of Saul Bellow: To Fame And Fortune, 1915-64

Leader’s account of the Nobel Prize-winning novelist weighs in at 812 pages, and this is only Part One, taking us up to the third of Bellow’s five marriages, writing of Humboldt’s Gift, and a secure position at the very summit of American letters.

Book review: The Life Of Saul Bellow: To Fame And Fortune, 1915-64

Zachary Leader

Jonathan Cape, €55.30; ebook £11.69

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