Humboldt's Gift

Humboldt's Gift is a 1975 novel by Saul Bellow, which won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize and contributed to Bellow's winning the Nobel Prize in Literature the same year.

The novel is a Roman à clef about Bellow's friendship with the poet Delmore Schwartz.

Saul Bellow's novel does not display the typical characteristics of a best- seller. It is a work concentrating on memories, mainly concerned with the recollections of Charles Citrine, a historian and playwright reminiscing about a deceased poet, von Humboldt.