Bernard Malamud

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