[lit-ideas] Re: Successor to Arthur Miller?

The Nobel Prize committee thought that Bellow was American, as it did 
Isaac Bashevis Singer (born in Warsaw).

I can't find anything about when, as I assume he did, Bellow became a US 
citizen. There's this from a short interview of Bellow by Robert Sward:


Sward: You were born in Quebec. If your family hadn't moved you to 
Chicago when you were nine, your childhood background would have been 
roughly similar to that of Mordecai Richler. You might, in other words, 
have written about Montreal instead of Chicago. Would you care to 
speculate?

Bellow: What's the point in speculating on what didn't happen? I might 
have died, in which case none of this would have happened. I damn near 
died in the Royal Victoria Hospital, Ward H, in December 1923, where I 
was down with pneumonia and peritonitis at the same time, either of 
these capable of killing me. I must have been strong as a horse. Because 
I survived all that and came out of it. I was then eight years old, and 
made it. So, then, how do I know whether I would have been like Mordecai 
Richler? I really take exception to being lumped together with A.M. 
Klein and Mordecai Richler as if we were a troika of Jewish writers. I 
consider myself a Jew and an American who writes books.


http://web.ask.com/redir?u=http%3a%2f%2fwww.robertsward.com%2frsward_sbellow.html

As for famous Minnesota philosophers—have you never heard of the 
metaphysician Knute Laager-Larson, or of Jean-Pierre Lemieux, the 
internationally acclaimed logician? I thought not.

Robert Paul
Lake Oswego OR
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