US author Saul Bellow dies

BOSTON - Saul Bellow, who rose from writing book reviews for $10 apiece to become perhaps the greatest American novelist since World War II, has died, his friend and lawyer Walter Pozen said. He was 89.

Bellow passed away of natural causes on Tuesday at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts, surrounded by family, Pozen said.

Bellow won the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize, and three National Book Awards.

His work touched on the essence of human existence, the experience of immigrants and Jews, and class and social mobility in 20th century America.

- REUTERS