Bernard Malamud
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Bernard Malamud (April 26, 1914 – March 18, 1986) was an American writer born in Brooklyn, New York to a Jewish family.
Malamud is most renowned for his short stories, oblique allegories often set in a dreamlike urban ghetto of immigrant Jews. His prose, like his settings, is an artful pastiche of Yiddish-English locutions, punctuated by sudden lyricism. On Malamud's death, Philip Roth wrote: "A man of stern morality, [Malamud was driven by] a need to consider long and seriously every last demand of an overtaxed, overtaxing conscience torturously exacerbated by the pathos of human need unabated." His best-known novel, The Fixer, won the National Book Award in 1966, and also the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Malamud's novel The Natural was made into a movie starring Robert Redford.
Bibliography
- The Natural (1952)
- The Assistant (1957)
- The Magic Barrel (1958)
- A New Life (1961)
- Idiots First (1963)
- The Fixer (1966)
- Pictures of Fidelman (1969)
- The Tenants (1971)
- Rembrandt's Hat (1974)
- Dubin's Lives (1979)
- God's Grace (1982)
- The Stories of Bernard Malamud (1983)
- The People and Uncollected Stories (1989)
- The Complete Stories (1997)
- The Mourners