Nobel laureate Saul Bellow dies

Nobel laureate Saul Bellow, a master of comic melancholy who in Herzog, Humboldt’s Gift and other novels both championed and mourned the soul’s fate in the modern world, has died at 89.

Bellow’s close friend and lawyer, Walter Pozen, said the writer had been in declining health, but was “wonderfully sharp to the end”. Pozen said that Bellow’s wife and daughter were at his side when he died at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts.