Saul Bellow, RIP.

Saul Bellow, author of "The Adventures of Augie March," "Herzog," and the Pulitzer winning "Humboldt's Gift," is dead at 89. A Nobel winner, Bellow was an astounding voice of post Word War II literature. His works are, or at least for me were, a staple of college American Lit courses. Bellow had the ability to make the daily drudgery of American life comic, sad and poignant.

I cannot think of Bellow without Malamud, Phillip Roth and Henry Roth, if only because I fell in love with all these authors in the very same class.

We have lost another quintessentially American voice.