Saul Bellow was born in 1915 in Lachine, Quebec and raised in Chicago. He received a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976 for his novel The Adventures of Augie March, which is set in Depression-era Chicago. The novel follows Augie March and his family as he is raised by his mother, brothers, and Grandma Lausch, who serves as the dominant authority figure in the household and teaches Augie lessons about life.