<p>I was simply sharing my thought process, rather than deleting my mistake.</p>
<p>I was about to say Bernard Malamud who taught for long years at Bennington was a Nobel winner in lit.</p>
<p>Then I recalled that he HAD NOT won the Nobel. I was confused because I was thinking of Saul Bellow, a Jewish American writer of the same generation, often grouped with Malamud and Roth. Bellow DID win the Nobel. But did not teach at a LAC. He was at U of Chicago (which plays a large role in several of his novels). U of C of course is a research Univ, though the undergrad is relatively small, and covers more of a liberal artsy span of fields.</p>