Which American author was chosen as the Nobel laureate in October 1976?
Saul Bellow
Title: The Dean's December
Passage: 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.
Title: Edith Grossman
Passage: Edith Grossman (born March 22, 1936) is an American Spanish-to-English literary translator.  She is one of the most important translators of Latin American fiction in the past century, and into the 21st, translating the works of Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez, Mayra Montero, Augusto Monterroso, Jaime Manrique, Julián Ríos, Álvaro Mutis, and of Miguel de Cervantes.
Title: Nobel Prize in Literature
Passage: Since 1901, the Nobel Prize in Literature (Swedish: "Nobelpriset i litteratur" ) has been awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction" (original Swedish: "den som inom litteraturen har producerat det mest framstående verket i en idealisk riktning").  Though individual works are sometimes cited as being particularly noteworthy, here "work" refers to an author's work as a whole.  The Swedish Academy decides who, if anyone, will receive the prize in any given year.  The academy announces the name of the chosen laureate in early October.  It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895; the others are the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Peace Prize, and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Title: Betsy Devine
Passage: Betsy Devine (born 1946) is an American author, journalist, and blogger, with published works including "Longing for the Harmonies" (1988), an appreciation of modern physics with Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek, and of "Absolute Zero Gravity" (1993), a collection of light-hearted material about science, with biologist Joel E. Cohen.  She is a Wikipedian and spoke at Wikimania in 2006, and is the spouse of physicist Wilczek.
Title: Saleem Ali (academic)
Passage: Dr. Prof. Saleem H. Ali (born, 1973) is a Pakistani American Australian scholar who is the Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of Energy and the Environment at the University of Delaware.  He has also held the Chair in Sustainable Resources Development at the University of Queensland in Brisbane Australia where he retains affiliation as a Professorial Research Fellow.  He is also a Senior Fellow at Columbia University's Center on Sustainable Investment.  Previously he was Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont's Rubenstein School of Natural Resources, and the founding director of the Institute for Environmental Diplomacy and Security as well as a Fellow at the Gund Institute.  He is known for his work on environmental conflict resolution, particularly in the extractive industries and was profiled in Forbes magazine in September, 2009 as "The Alchemist."  His book "Treasures of the Earth: Need Greed and a Sustainable Future" (Yale University Press, October, 2009) received a cover endorsement by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus for providing a " welcome linkage between environmental behavior and poverty alleviation."  In May 2010, he was also chosen by National Geographic as an "emerging explorer" with a profile appearing in the June 2010 issue of National Geographic Magazine.  In March 2011, he was also selected by the World Economic Forum as a "Young Global Leader."
Title: Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa
Passage: Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa is a pan-African writing prize awarded biennially to the best literary work produced by an African.  It was established by the Lumina Foundation in 2005 in honour of Africa's first Nobel Laureate in literature, Wole Soyinka, who presents the prize, which is chosen by an international jury of literary figures.  Administered by the Lumina Foundation, the prize has been described as "the African equivalent of the Nobel Prize".
Title: Paul D. Boyer
Passage: Paul Delos Boyer (born July 31, 1918) is an American biochemist, analytical chemist, and a professor of chemistry at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) .  He shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research on the "enzymatic mechanism underlying the biosynthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)" (ATP synthase) with John E. Walker, making Boyer the only Utah-born Nobel laureate; the remainder of the Prize in that year was awarded to Danish chemist Jens Christian Skou for his discovery of the Na+/K+-ATPase.  He is the oldest living Nobel laureate at age 99 .
Title: William Vickrey
Passage: William Spencer Vickrey (21 June 1914 – 11 October 1996) was a Canadian-born professor of economics and Nobel Laureate.  Vickrey was awarded the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with James Mirrlees for their research into the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information, becoming the only Nobel laureate born in British Columbia.
Title: Barbara Gelb
Passage: Barbara Gelb (née Stone ; February 6, 1926 – February 9, 2017) was an American author, playwright, and journalist.  She, along with her husband Arthur, wrote three biographies of the Nobel laureate playwright Eugene O'Neill.
Title: John Hemingway
Passage: John Patrick Hemingway (born 1960) is an American author, whose memoir "Strange Tribe: A Family Memoir" examines the similarities and the complex relationship between his father Gregory Hemingway and his grandfather, the Nobel Laureate Ernest Hemingway; in particular it addresses the issue of his father's cross-dressing and sex reassignment and its connection to Ernest Hemingway.
The Dean's December Nobel Prize in Literature