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Saul Bellow nabbed the 1976 Pulitzer for Humboldt's Gift, but not for earlier novels such as The Adventures of Augie March.
Dave Astor: A Factual History of Pulitzer-Winning Fiction Dave Astor 2012
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He saw a shoal of porpoises and a stormy petrel skimming over the waves and read Humboldt's glowing accounts of tropical scenery.
Weatherwatch: A seasick Charles Darwin aboard the HMS Beagle 2011
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In Saul Bellow's "Humboldt's Gift," the narrator describes himself as an "idiotic old lecher" who is "leaving two children to follow an obvious gold digger to corrupt Europe."
Bringing Up Baby? Definitely Jonathan Rosen 2011
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Saul Bellow nabbed the 1976 Pulitzer for Humboldt's Gift, but not for earlier novels such as The Adventures of Augie March.
Dave Astor: A Factual History of Pulitzer-Winning Fiction Dave Astor 2012
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More recently, Saul Bellow published Mr. Sammler's Planet at 55, and Humboldt's Gift at 60.
David Galenson: Literary Late Bloomers David Galenson 2011
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Mr. Sachs highlights Mr. Humboldt's pivotal work and profiles early American explorers who were inspired by him.
Our Thirst for Oil: A Deeper Dive Michael Totty 2010
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He was fond of that other tormented poet, Delmore Schwartz, but vexed by his decline; Schwartz was the inspiration for Von Humboldt Fleischer, the protagonist of Bellow's "Humboldt's Gift" 1975, for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
Last letters from a master Jonathan Yardley 2010
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Ward's book provides numerous details of trade, mining, economic activity and topography, as well as pointing out many errors in Alexander von Humboldt's earlier classic work Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain (1811).
Did You Know? Mexico tried to prevent Americans from migrating to Texas 2008
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Ward's book provides numerous details of trade, mining, economic activity and topography, as well as pointing out many errors in Alexander von Humboldt's earlier classic work Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain (1811).
Did You Know? Mexico tried to prevent Americans from migrating to Texas 2008
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He was fond of that other tormented poet, Delmore Schwartz, but vexed by his decline; Schwartz was the inspiration for Von Humboldt Fleischer, the protagonist of Bellow's "Humboldt's Gift" 1975, for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
Last letters from a master Jonathan Yardley 2010
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