Which author won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Humboldt's Gift?

Saul Bellow won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Humboldt’s Gift.

Published in 1975, the novel centers on Charlie Citrine, a successful writer and intellectual whose life is unsettled by memories of his brilliant but troubled friend Von Humboldt Fleisher. The character of Humboldt is widely associated with the poet Delmore Schwartz, who had been Bellow’s friend and mentor.

The novel moves between literary ambition, American commercial culture, friendship, money, and spiritual uncertainty. Its title refers to the influence Humboldt gives Citrine, even after Humboldt’s death, through the legacy of their relationship and artistic ideals.

Bellow had already won the National Book Award several times, and the 1976 Pulitzer added another major American literary honor. He later received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976, making that year especially important in his career.