title: Saul Bellow: Novels 1944-1953: Dangling Man, The Victim, and The Adventures of Augie March (Library of America)
author:  Saul Bellow 
description: If Saul Bellow wasnt actually the first to make a novel out of the pure American idiom, he makes Augie March a darn good voice to sing along with Huckleberry Finn. Sentence for sentence,<i>Augie March</i>is one of the finest excursions into prose by any modern American. <b><i>Chicago Tribune</i></b>
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  PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS
  
  
  ##### To Jerusalem and Back
  
  
  Saul Bellow (1915–2005) is the only novelist to receive three National book
  awards, for _The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog,_ and _Mr Sammler’s
  Planet._ In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel _Humboldt’s Gift._
  The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to him in 1976 ‘for the human
  understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in
  his work.’ In 1990, Mr Bellow was presented with the National Book Award
  Foundation Medal for distinguished contribution to American letters. He has
  also received the National Medal of Arts. His books include _Dangling Man_
  (1944), _The Victim_ (1947), _The Adventures of Augie March_ (1953), _Seize
  the Day_ (1956), _Henderson the Rain King_ (1959), _Herzog_ (1964), _Mosby’s
  Memoirs_ (1969), _Mr Sammler’s Planet_ (1970), _Hu