The personal side of Saul Bellow: Daniel Meyer and Ashley Gosselar on Bellow's Chicago connections

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The University of Chicago Library’s Special Collections Research Center has opened an archive, the Guide to the Saul Bellow Papers, 1926-2015, which documents the Nobel-winning novelist’s creative process and reflects his correspondence with fellow writers. 

Daniel Meyer and Ashley Gosselar of the University of Chicago Library discuss Bellow's connection to UChicago and the city of Chicago as well as the importance of examining the malleability of his unpublished work.

Read more here: http://www.uchicago.edu/features/behind_the_life_and_work_of_saul_bellow/

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