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  As those years of writing in solitude came to an end, Kimberly Witherspoon of Inkwell Management, ably assisted by William Callahan, saw an elegant little book therein and Nancy Miller of Bloomsbury found a memoir that, with her help and that of Lea Beresford as well, I am pleased to have completed.

  A thank-you for waiting is due to many who checked their curiosity and were patient until a very picky author was satisfied. They are my children, Juliet and Andrew; my brothers, Adam and Dan; my stepmothers Sasha and Alexandra; my cousin Lesha; Miriam Tarcov; and friends and relatives with whom I have spoken during the five years I have been working on a book that I hope will touch them as well.

  Plates Section

  Lescha and her children, 1918. Left to right: Saul, Lescha, Morris (rear), Samuel, and Jane.

  Anita Goshkin at sixteen.

  Saul at sixteen.

  Saul and Anita, 1937.

  Ethel and Benjamin Freifeld. (Courtesy of Judith Freifeld Ward)

  Sam Freifeld.

  Herb and Cora Passin.

  Saul with Oscar and Edith Tarcov.

  Saul, Anita, and Harold “Kappy” Kaplan, 1940.

  Saul and Greg, 1945.

  Greg and Grandma Goshkin.

  Isaac Rosenfeld and daughter, Nitza.

  Oscar and Miriam Tarcov.

  Herb, Mitzi, and Jane McClosky. (Courtesy of Mitzi McClosky)

  Arthur Herschel Lidov.

  “Saul Bellow” by Arthur Lidov, ink on paper, 1947. (National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution © Alexandra Lidov)

  Saul, depressed, in 1952.

  Greg as a latchkey kid.

  The Bellow family, 1955. Seated: Abraham and Fanny Bellow. Standing left to right: Shael Bellows, Lesha Bellows, Lynn Bellows, Marge Bellows, Morrie Bellows, Jane Kauffman, Samuel Bellows, Nina Bellows, and Joel Bellows.

  Bard College Literature Division, 1953. Standing from left: Keith Botsford, Saul Bellow, Irma Brandies, Anthony Hecht, and William Frauenfelder. Seated: Jack Ludwig (center), William Humphrey, Warren Carrier, and Andrus Wanning. (Courtesy of the Bard College Archives and Special Collection)

  Alexandra “Sasha” Tschacbasov. (Courtesy of the late Sasha Bellow)

  Greg and Ted Hoffman in Tivoli.

  Beebee Freedman Schenk de Regniers.

  Susan Glassman. (Courtesy of Daniel Bellow)

  Saul in Aspen.

  Saul and Dan.

  Alexandra Bagdasar Ionescu Tulcea. (Courtesy of Alexandra Bellow)

  Saul in Stockholm. (AP Images)

  The Bellow boys in Stockholm. (Charles Osgood, Chicago Tribune)

  Edith Tarcov.

  Lesha and Sam Greengus. (Courtesy of Lesha Greengus)

  Saul at Adam’s wedding.

  Saul and Janis Freedman Bellow. (Courtesy of Daniel Bellow)

  Anita holding court in Pasadena.

  Saul in Vermont.

  Appendix of Novels and Narrators

  BRIEF SUMMARY DISCUSSIONS OF ALL SAUL BELLOW’S WORKS ARE AVAILABLE ONLINE AT THE SAUL BELLOW JOURNAL, WWW.SAULBELLOW.ORG

  Publication

  Narrator

  Dangling Man (1944)

  Joseph

  The Victim (1947)

  Asa Leventhal

  The Adventures of Augie March (1953)

  Augie March

  Seize the Day (1956)

  Tommy Wilhelm

  Henderson the Rain King (1959)

  Eugene Henderson

  Herzog (1964)

  Moses Herzog

  The Last Analysis: A Play (1965)

  Mr. Sammler’s Planet (1969)

  Artur Sammler

  Humboldt’s Gift (1975)

  Charlie Citrine

  To Jerusalem and Back (1976)

  The Dean’s December (1982)

  Albert Corde

  Him with His Foot in His Mouth (1984)

  More Die of Heartbreak (1987)

  Kenneth Trachtenberg

  A Theft (1989)

  Ithiel Regler

  It All Adds Up: Essays (1994)

  The Actual (1997)

  Harry Trellman

  Ravelstein (2000)

  Chick

  Collected Stories (2001)

  A Note on the Author

  GREGORY BELLOW, PH.D., was a psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapist for forty years and remains a member of the core faculty of the Sanville Institute for Clinical Social Work. He lives in Redwood City, California.

  Copyright © 2013 by Greg Bellow

  All rights reserved

  You may not copy, distribute, transmit, reproduce or otherwise make available this publication (or any part of it) in any form, or by any means (including without limitation electronic, digital, optical, mechanical, photocopying, printing, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of the publisher. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.

  First published in the United States of America in 2013

  First published by Bloomsbury USA, New York

  This electronic edition published in April 2013.

  www.bloomsbury.com

  LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

  Bellow, Greg.

  Saul Bellow’s heart : a son’s memoir / Greg Bellow. — 1st U.S. ed.

  p. cm.

  1. Bellow, Saul. 2. Novelists, American—20th century—Biography. 3. Fathers and sons—Biography. I. Title.

  PS3503.E4488Z849 2013

  813’.52—dc23

  [B]

  2012035407

  eISBN 978-1-60819-996-9 (ebook)