Which American author was chosen as the Nobel laureate in October 1976?
The Dean's December The Dean's December is a 1982 novel by the American author Saul Bellow. The first novel Bellow published after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976, it is set in Chicago and Bucharest. The book's main character, Albert Corde, a meditative academic who faces a crisis, accompanies his Romanian-born astrophysicist wife to her Communist-ruled native country, where they deal with the death of his mother-in-law. This sojourn allows Corde to observe the workings of a totalitarian regime in particular and the Eastern Bloc in general, a perspective which provides him with insight into the human condition.
Tracy K. Smith Tracy K. Smith (born April 16, 1972) is an American poet and educator. She has published three collections of poetry, winning the Pulitzer Prize for her 2011 volume "Life on Mars". About this collection, Joel Brouwer wrote in 2011: "Smith shows herself to be a poet of extraordinary range and ambition...As all the best poetry does, "Life on Mars" first sends us out into the magnificent chill of the imagination and then returns us to ourselves, both changed and consoled." In June 2017, she was selected as the next United States Poet Laureate, to begin her term in the fall.