Which novel by Saul Bellow won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1976?

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Which novel by Saul Bellow won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1976? Humboldt’s Gift.

Published in 1975, Humboldt’s Gift is a satirical, philosophical novel about art, money, ambition, and cultural status in modern America. Its central writer, Charlie Citrine, is shaped partly by his relationship with the troubled poet Von Humboldt Fleisher, a character modeled in part on Bellow’s friend Delmore Schwartz.

The novel won the Pulitzer in 1976 and also formed part of a remarkable year for Bellow: he received the Nobel Prize in Literature later that year. It was his fourth novel to be recommended by a Pulitzer jury, but his first to win the award.

The wrong options are all Bellow novels but belong to different points in his career. The Adventures of Augie March won the National Book Award in 1954, Herzog was a 1964 novel, and Mr. Sammler’s Planet appeared in 1970 and was not a Pulitzer winner.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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