Bernard Malamud
American author (1914-1986) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 71
Bernard Malamud was an American novelist and short story writer. Along with Saul Bellow, Joseph Heller, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Norman Mailer and Philip Roth, he was one of the best known American Jewish authors of the 20th century. His baseball novel The Natural was adapted into a 1984 film starring Robert Redford.
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1986Died18 March 19861969O. Henry AwardAward1967National Book AwardAwardPulitzer Prize for FictionAward1959National Book AwardAward1914Born26 April 1914
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His 1966 novel The Fixer, about antisemitism in the Russian Empire, won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
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Deceased
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Lived 1914 to 1986 · aged 71
