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Influential Canadian-American writer (1915-2005) who counted the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts among his many accolades; his best-known works include The Adventures of Augie March, Henderson the Rain King, Herzog, and Seize the Day. The author's retained copies of three contracts with Viking Press, each four pages on adjoining sheets, 8.5 x 14, dated from 1956 to 1968, all signed at the conclusion by Bellow and also docketed in his own hand. The contracts represent the publication of his novels Henderson the Rain King and Herzog, and his short story collection Mosby's Memoirs. The first DS, dated April 4, 1956, obligates Bellow to provide three untitled novels in 1956, 1957, and 1958 and raises his advance to $15,000; a note in Bellow's hand on the verso indicates that one of these is 1959's Henderson the Rain King. The second, dated August 27, 1964, confirms that Bellow has delivered the finished "work of fiction entitled Herzog," and is similarly signed and annotated on the reverse by Bellow. The third, January 22, 1968, confirms Bellow's delivery of "a volume of short stories entitled Stories, consisting of approximately 60,000 words," to which Bellow has added the title in blue ballpoint, "Mosby's Memoirs." In overall fine condition.
