First Day of Issue Ceremony for Postage Stamp Honoring Saul Bellow

Author, University of Chicago professor, and Nobel laureate Saul Bellow was remembered at the unveiling of the new U.S. postage stamp held on February 6, 2024, at the Social Science Research Building Tea Room at the University of Chicago.
Speakers included:
- Regina Aikens, ’98 (MBA), US Postal Service Manager Customer Relations IL 1
- Torsten Reimer, University Librarian and Dean of the University Library, The University of Chicago
- Gabriel Richardson Lear, Chair of the Committee on Social Thought, Professor of Philosophy and in the Committee on Social Thought, The University of Chicago
- David Wellbery, LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor of Germanic Studies, the Committee on Social Thought, and in the College, The University of Chicago
- Sean Hargadon, US Postal Service Strategic Communications
The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center at the University of Chicago Library is home to the Saul Bellow Papers, 1926-2015.
Bellow was a prolific writer and educator and the recipient of many awards, among them the Pulitzer Prize, the National Medal of Arts, the National Book Award for Fiction and the Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known novels include The Adventures of Augie March, Henderson the Rain King, Herzog, Humboldt's Gift, Mr. Sammler's Planet, and Ravelstein.
The Saul Bellow Papers contains personal ephemera; correspondence; materials related to the creation and publication of his writings; writings by others given to or collected by Bellow; writings about Bellow's life and work; administrative and teaching materials from the University of Chicago and Boston University; awards; photographs and audio recordings; artwork, broadsides, and posters.
All interested researchers are welcome to consult the Saul Bellow Papers. You can learn more about how to make arrangements to visit Special Collections and consult collections at www.lib.uchicago.edu/scrc/vis...