Question: Who died first, Brian O'Nolan or Bernard Malamud?

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Pictures of Fidelman: Pictures of Fidelman: An Exhibition is the fifth published novel of Bernard Malamud.  It is a novel in the form of a short story cycle, which gathers six stories dealing with Arthur Fidelman, an art student from the Bronx who travels to Italy, initially to research Giotto, but also with the hopes of becoming a painter.  It was published in 1969 and includes stories from Malamud's earlier collections "The Magic Barrel" (1958) and "Idiots First" (1963), plus two previously uncollected stories and one previously unpublished story.

Brian O'Nolan: Brian O'Nolan (Irish: "Brian Ó Nualláin" ; 5 October 1911 – 1 April 1966) was an Irish novelist, playwright and satirist, considered a major figure in twentieth century Irish literature.  Born in Strabane, County Tyrone, he is regarded as a key figure in postmodern literature.  His English language novels, such as "At Swim-Two-Birds", and "The Third Policeman", were written under the "pen name" Flann O'Brien.  His many satirical columns in "The Irish Times" and an Irish language novel "An Béal Bocht" were written under the name Myles na gCopaleen.

The Magic Barrel: The Magic Barrel is a 1958 collection of thirteen short stories written by Bernard Malamud and published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.  Also, the Jewish Publication Society released its own edition at the same time.  It won the 1959 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.  It was also Malamud's debut collection of stories.

PEN/Malamud Award: The PEN/Malamud Award and Memorial Reading honors "excellence in the art of the short story", and is awarded annually by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation.  The selection committee is composed of PEN/Faulkner directors and representatives of Bernard Malamud's literary executors.  The award was first given in 1988.

The Natural (film): The Natural is a 1984 American sports drama film adaptation of Bernard Malamud's 1952 baseball novel of the same name, directed by Barry Levinson and starring Robert Redford, Glenn Close, and Robert Duvall.  The film, like the book, recounts the experiences of Roy Hobbs, an individual with great "natural" baseball talent, spanning decades of Roy's success and his suffering.  It was the first film produced by TriStar Pictures.

Bernard Malamud: Bernard Malamud (April 26, 1914 – March 18, 1986) was an American novelist and short story writer.  Along with Saul Bellow 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.  His 1966 novel "The Fixer" (also filmed), about antisemitism in Tsarist Russia, won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

Janna Malamud Smith: Janna Malamud Smith (born 1952) is an American non-fiction writer.  She was born in Corvallis, Oregon in 1952, the second of two children born to Ann DeChiara Malamud and the writer Bernard Malamud.  She grew up in Oregon, then in Bennington, Vermont, and Cambridge, Massachusetts.  She received her A.B. from Harvard University in 1973, majoring in American History and Literature, and an M.S.W. in 1979 from Smith College.  She practices and teaches psychotherapy in the Boston area.  She is married to David Smith, and is the mother of two children.

A New Life (novel): A New Life is a semi-autobiographical campus novel by Bernard Malamud first published in 1961.  It is Malamud's third published novel.

The Mourners: Bernard Malamud’s short story "The Mourners” first appeared in "Discovery" in January 1955.  The story was included in Malamud's first collection of short stories, "The Magic Barrel", published in 1958.

Dubin's Lives: Dubin's Lives is the seventh published novel by the American writer Bernard Malamud.  The title character is a biographer working on a life of D. H. Lawrence.  It first appeared in hardcover from the publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1979.  Portions of the novel originally appeared,

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Answer: Brian O'Nolan