Craig Raine

The raw material of fiction

According to Zachary Leader’s latest biography, Saul Bellow was a great looter of life, rifling his most painful relationships for material for his novels

  • The Life of Saul Bello: To Fame and Fortune, 1915–1964

    Zachary Leader

    Cape, pp. 832

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