The Adventures of Augie March Viking Books Sep. 2003 isbn: 0670032425 $29.95 Novels, 1944-1953 Library of America Sep. 2003 isbn: 1931082383 $35.00 Other Books by Saul Bellow

Harvard Book Store Author Series Presents:

Harvard Book Store is pleased to announce that on Thursday, October 16th Martin Amis, James Wood, Stanley Crouch and Jonathan Wilson will come together to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of The Adventures of Augie March. Amis (author of novels such as London Fields, Money, and The Information), Wood (senior editor at The New Republic and author of The Book of God), Crouch (author of Reconsidering the Souls of Black Folk and Always in Pursuit: Fresh American Perspectives), and Wilson (author of A Palestine Affair) will speak as great admirers of Bellow who are drawn to this enduring work, which has just been released in special editions by Viking Penguin and The Library of America.

"[Bellow's] body of work is more capacious of imagination and language than anyone else's.... If there's a candidate for the great American novel, I think this is it." –Salman Rushdie, The Sunday Times (London)

Note: Due to health reasons, Saul Bellow will not be able to attend this event.

Saul Bellow

Author Biography:

Saul Bellow, author of twelve novels and numerous novellas and short stories, 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 Humboldt's Gift and, in 1976, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. A longtime resident of Chicago, Mr. Bellow now lives in New England.