Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning author Saul Bellow, left, listens to fellow writers speak as author Susan Cheever looks on during The Hemingway Centennial conference at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, Sunday, April 11, 1999. Nobel laureate Bellow, a master of comic melancholy who in 'Herzog,' 'Humboldt's Gift' and other novels both championed and mourned the soul's fate in the modern world, died Tuesday April 5, 2005. He was 89. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)