Originally Posted by
desiresjab
The best I personally know of, I believe to be Saul Bellow. His stuff had the lasting stamp of real literature on every book. He never wrote a book that will have as broad a public appeal as many others have written, nothing to catch the public's imagination in a big way like war or adventure novels, but he was a world class mind with awesome technique and insight into human character. Many of his lead characters had upper eschelon eductaions, allowing him to talk on virtually any subject within the novel.