"I didn't know him too well. We disagreed on a number of things politically. In the protests in the beginning of Norman Mailer's Armies of the Night, when Mailer, Robert Lowell and Paul Goodman were marching to protest the Vietnam War, Bellow was invited to a sort of counter-gathering. He said, 'Of course I'll attend'. But he made a big thing of it. Instead of just saying OK, he was proud of it. So I wrote him a letter and he didn't like it. He wrote me a letter back. He called me a Stalinist. But otherwise, we were friendly. He was a brilliant writer, of course. I love Seize the Day." Attempts to name a street after Bellow in his Hyde Park neighborhood were halted by a local alderman on the grounds that Bellow had made remarks about the neighborhood's inhabitants that they considered racist. A one-block stretch of West Augusta Boulevard in Humboldt Park was named Saul Bellow Way in his honor instead. Bellow was a supporter U.S. English, an organization formed in the early 1980s by John Tanton and former Senator S.I. Hayakawa, that supports making English the official language of the United States, and ended his association with the group in 1988. Awards and honors 1948 Guggenheim Fellowship 1954 National Book Award for Fiction 1965 National Book Award for Fiction 1971 National Book Award for Fiction 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature 1980 O. Henry Award 1986 St. Louis Literary Award from the Saint Louis University Library Associates 1988 National Medal of Arts 1989 PEN/Malamud Award 1989 Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award 1990 National Book Foundation's lifetime Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters 1997 National Jewish Book Award for The Actual 2010 Inducted into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame. Bellow is represented in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery with six portraits, including a photograph by Irving Penn, a painting by Sarah Yuster, a bust by Sara Miller, and drawings by Edward Sorel and Arthur Herschel Lidov. A copy of the Miller bust was installed at the Harold Washington Library Center in 1993. Bellow's papers are held at the library of the University of Chicago. Bibliography Novels and novellas Dangling Man (1944) The Victim (1947) The Adventures of Augie March (1953), National Book Award for Fiction Seize the Day (1956) Henderson the Rain King (1959) Herzog (1964), National