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Who was the model for Saul Bellow’s hard-drinking poet Von Humboldt Fleisher in his novel Humboldt’s Gift (1975)?
Bellow’s friend Delmore Schwartz (1913-66), poet, fiction writer, and critic, was the model for Saul Bellow’s hard-drinking poet Von Humboldt Fleisher in the novel Humboldt’s Gift.