Playboy Interview: Saul Bellow

Playboy Interview: Saul BellowIf we judge our artists by the awards they receive, then Saul Bellow must be America's best living writer. He's won three National Book Awards (for "The Adventures of Augie March" in 1953, "Herzog" in 1964 and "Mr. Sammler's Planet" in 1970), the Pulitzer Prize ("Humboldt's Gift," 1975), the Gold Medal for the Novel (1977), the National Institute of Arts and Letters Award (1952), the Friends of Literature Fiction Award, the Ja...