Love and Strife (1965-2005)

by Zachary Leader

  William Hunt, poet and Steinerian, early 1970s (courtesy of William Hunt)

  SB and Joseph Epstein, 1970s (courtesy of Joseph Epstein)

  John Cheever, John Updike, and their wives at the National Book Award ceremony, 1964 (courtesy of Getty Images; photo by David Gahr)

  SB and Edward H. Levi at the second Jefferson Lecture, Chicago, April 1977. From 1968 to 1975 Levi was president of the University of Chicago; from 1975 to 1977 he was U.S. Attorney General under President Ford. (courtesy of the Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library)

  SB and President Jimmy Carter, March 1979, at the White House to celebrate the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty (courtesy of the Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library)

  A broken elevator forces children to play in the hallways of an upper floor at the Robert Taylor Homes on Chicago’s South Side, 1971. (courtesy of Getty Images; photo by Robert Adam Senstacke)

  Clair Patterson, the model for Sam Beech in The Dean’s December, photographed at Caltech’s 1993 commencement ceremony (courtesy of Engineering and Science; photo by Yigal Erel)

  Winston Moore, Warden of Cook County Jail, the model for Rufus Ridpath in The Dean’s December, playing horseshoe with prisoners, 1971 (courtesy of Ebony magazine; photographer unknown)

  Philip Grew as a University of Chicago undergraduate, 1977 (courtesy of Philip Grew)

  Where Mark Gromer fell to his death in July 1977 (courtesy of John Hellmuth)

  Jonathan Kleinbard, University of Chicago vice president for University News and Community Affairs, and SB’s friend, 1983 (courtesy of The Chicago Maroon; photo by Arthur U. Ellis)

  Philip Grew, age fifty-eight, Umbria, 2016 (courtesy of Alice Leader)

  T. J. McCarthy, assistant state’s attorney in the Mark Gromer case, early 1980s (courtesy of T. J. McCarthy)

  Marion Siegel, Barney Singer, SB, Alexandra, and Howie Siegel in front of Siegel’s restaurant in Victoria, British Columbia, 1983 (courtesy of Howie Siegel)

  Lesha Greengus, Jane Bellow Kauffman, and SB in Montreal, on the occasion of the naming ceremony of the Saul Bellow Municipal Library in Lachine, June 1984 (private collection)

  Eugene Kennedy and SB, early 1980s (courtesy of Sarah Charles)

  SB and Allan Bloom on the porch of the Vermont house (courtesy of Janis Bellow)

  Harriet Wasserman, SB’s longtime agent (courtesy of Special Collections, Duke University Library)

  Andrew Wylie, SB’s agent, replacing Harriet Wasserman in 1996 (courtesy of the Wylie Agency)

  Barley Alison, SB’s British editor and friend (courtesy of Rosie Alison)

  Joel Bellows, SB’s nephew and sometime attorney and accountant, with wife Laurel (courtesy of Joel Bellows)

  Adam Bellow and Rachel Newton at the time of their marriage, 1986 (courtesy of Daniel Bellow)

  Daniel and Susan Bellow, his mother, who died in late 1996, when Daniel was thirty-two, undated (courtesy of Daniel Bellow)

  At the wedding of Daniel Bellow and Heather Hershman, with Susan Bellow on the left and SB at the right, Miami, January 1996 (courtesy of Daniel Bellow)

  Billy Rose in front of his house, 1948 (courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York; photo by Arthur Rothstein)

  Nathan Tarcov at thirty-five, professor at the Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Political Science, the Committee on Social Relations, and the College at the University of Chicago, 1983 (courtesy of The Chicago Maroon; photo by Patricia Evans)

  Allan Bloom in Chicago, 1987 (courtesy of Paul Merideth)

  Leo Strauss, professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Chicago, undated (courtesy of the Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library)

  A partial gathering of faculty of the Committee on Social Thought, 1987. Back row: Edward H. Levi (law), Karl J. Weintraub (history). Next row down: Ralph Lerner (political philosophy), Anthony Yu (literature and religion), Leon Kass (science, medicine, education), Paul Wheatley (geography). Next row down: A. K. Ramanujan (poet, scholar of literature and religion), James Redfield (classicist). Next row down: David Grene (classicist), Allan Bloom (political philosophy). Next row down: SB and Wendy Doniger (Indian religion and mythology). (courtesy of Paul Merideth)

  SB and Ada Aharoni, poet and literary scholar, organizer of the 1987 conference on Bellow at the University of Haifa, April 1987 (courtesy of Ada Aharoni)

  SB, Shimon Peres, and a University of Haifa official, April 1987 (courtesy of Ada Aharoni)

  SB and Teddy Kollek, Jerusalem, April 1987 (courtesy of the Max Jacoby Estate; photo by Max Jacoby)

  SB receiving the National Medal of Arts from President Reagan, August 9, 1998 (courtesy of the University of Chicago News Office; photo by Mary-Anne Fackleman-Miner/The White House)

  Mark Harris, 1984, author of Saul Bellow, Drumlin Woodchuck (1980), an attempted biography (courtesy of Neil Boenzi/New York Times/Redux/eyevine)

  Ruth Miller, Boston, 1987, before falling out with SB over Saul Bellow: A Biography of the Imagination (1991) (courtesy of the Geddes Language Center, Boston University)

  James Atlas, 2016, author of Bellow: A Biography (2000) (courtesy of Pantheon Books; photo by Michael Lionstar)

  Brent Staples, author and editorial writer for The New York Times, New York, 2005 (courtesy of Fred Conrad/New York Times/Redux/eyevine)

  SB, Rosie, and Martin Amis, Vermont, summer 2000 (courtesy of Isabel Fonseca)

  Cynthia Ozick, who described her feelings for Bellow as “something more than admiration, something closer to adoration” (courtesy of Nancy Crampton)

  James Wood and SB, c. 2000 (courtesy of James Wood)

  Ruth Wisse and SB, 2001, Brookline (courtesy of Ruth Wisse; photo by Janis Bellow)

  SB and Chris Walsh in front of the Crowninshield Road house, Brookline, mid-1990s (courtesy of Chris Walsh; photo by Janis Bellow)

  SB and Keith Botsford, Boston University, early 2000s (courtesy of Keith Botsford)

  Crowninshield Road house, Brookline, 2017 (courtesy of Asaf Galay; photo by Asaf Galay)

  John Silber in his office at Boston University (courtesy of Getty Images, Rick Friedman)

  Guests assembled outside the Vermont house the day after SB’s surprise seventy-fifth birthday party (courtesy of Janis Bellow)

  SB, Richard Stern, and Alane Rollings (courtesy of Alane Rollings; photo by Janis Bellow)

  SB and Philip Roth on the Connecticut River, Brattleboro, Vermont, 1998 (courtesy of Cella Manea and the Wylie Agency)

  Dave Peltz at ninety-four, still driving, Chicago, 2009 (courtesy of Alice Leader)

  Stephanie Nelson and Janis Bellow as they were awarded Ph.D.s, with David Grene and SB, University of Chicago, 1993 (courtesy of Janis Bellow)

  Roger Kaplan and daughter Chloe, Paris, early 1990s (courtesy of Roger Kaplan)

  François Furet of the Committee on Social Thought and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, undated (courtesy of Sygma via Getty Images; photo by David Niviere/Kipa)

  SB and Janis, with Janis’s parents, Sonia and Harvey Freedman, in the background and Rosie, barely visible, between them, undated (courtesy of Janis Bellow)

  Greg Bellow in 2005, the year of SB’s death (courtesy of Greg Bellow)

  Juliet Bellow, late 1990s (courtesy of Daniel Bellow)

  Janis and SB, Brookline, 1996 (courtesy of Thomas Barnard)

  SB’s grave, Morningside Cemetery, Brattleboro, Vermont, 2008 (courtes
y of Alice Leader)

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