Mr. Bellow’s first novel, Dangling Man, was published in 1944, and his second, The Victim, in 1947. In 1948 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and spent a year in Paris, where he began The Adventures of Augie March, which won the National Book Award for fiction in 1954. Mr. Bellow’s other books include Seize the Day (1956) and Henderson the Rain King (1959).
Now, in his new work, Herzog, which became a triumphant bestseller almost overnight, Bellow emerges not only as the most intelligent novelist of his generation but as the finest stylist writing fiction in America today.