Zachary Leader's biography, "The Life of Saul Bellow: Love and Strife, 1965-2005," delves into the intense adoration and obsession that some fans, like Barney Singer and Louis Gallo, had for Saul Bellow, often mimicking his style and personas from his novels.

Philip Roth's novella "The Ghost Writer" features a discussion between the character Nathan Zuckerman and the writer E.I. Lonoff, resembling Bernard Malamud and Henry Roth, about the life and art of fiction, where Lonoff mentions the complex life of Abravanel, likely referring to Saul Bellow.