Saul Bellow (June 10, 1915 - April 5, 2005) was a Canadian-American writer. He was born Solomon Bellows in Lachine, Montreal to Russian parents. He moved to Chicago, Illinois, when he was nine. He became an American citizen in 1941. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976. He wrote the books "Henderson the Rain King" and "Herzog". He died in Brookline, Massachusetts.