This author created a narrator nicknamed "Chick" who is a longtime friend of the title character in one work, which also sees
This author created a narrator nicknamed "Chick" who is a longtime friend of the title character in one work, which also sees Sam Partiget meet the title character after he discovers he is dying of AIDS.  In another work, this author wrote about a day in the life of a middle-aged failed actor named Wilhelm Adler, while he also wrote about a Holocaust survivor who was "sorry for all and sore at heart".  This author of Ravelstein, Seize the Day, and Mr. Sammler's Planet also wrote about the gangster Rinaldo Cantabile attempting to get the poet Charlie Citrine to sell out in one work, and another work features a character who plans to shoot Valentine and Madeleine after hearing about a woman who killed her three-year old son by throwing him against a wall.  For 10 points—name this author of Humboldt's Gift and Herzog, who wrote about Stella's marriage to the title character in Chicago in The Adventures of Augie March.
This author created a narrator nicknamed "Chick" who is a longtime friend of the title character in one work, which also sees Sam Partiget meet the title character after he discovers he is dying of AIDS.  
Saul {Bellow}