索爾·貝婁（Saul Bellow，1915－2005），美國作傢。生於加拿大魁北剋省的拉辛，在濛特利爾度過童年。一九二四年，舉傢遷至美國芝加哥。一九三三年，考入芝加哥大學。兩年後，轉入西北大學，於一九三七年畢業，並獲得社會學和人類學學士學位。同年，赴威斯康星大學攻讀碩士學位。之後長期在大學執教。

齣版於一九五三年的《奧吉·馬奇曆險記》使貝婁一舉成名，奠定瞭他的文學地位。其後，他陸續齣版《雨王亨德森》（1959）、《赫索格》（1964）、《賽姆勒先生的行星》（1970）、《洪堡的禮物）（1975）、《院長的十二月》（1982）等。這些作品反映瞭中産階級知識分子的精神苦悶，從側麵揭示瞭美國當代“豐裕社會”的精神危機。此外，貝婁還齣版過諸多中短篇小說集、劇本，以及遊記。

In this superb work of fiction, Nobel Laureate Saul Bellow writes comically and wisely about the tenacious claims of first love. Harry Trellman, an aging, astute businessman, has never belonged anywhere and is as awkward in his human attachments as he is gifted in observing the people around him. But Harry's observational talents have not gone unnoticed by "trillionaire" Sigmund Adletsky, who retains Harry as his advisor. Soon the old man discovers Harry's intense forty-year passion for a twice-divorced interior designer, Amy Wustrin. At the exhumation and reburial of her husband, Harry is provided, thanks to Sigmund, perhaps the final means for disclosing feelings amassed over a lifetime. Written late in Bellow's career, "The Actual" is a maestro's dissection of the affairs of the heart.