name: Bernard Malamud
birth_date: 1914-04-26 00:00:00
death_date: 1986-03-18 00:00:00
genres: Literature & Fiction
influences: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Dostoyevsky, Henry James, Anton Chekhov
avg_rating: 3.84
ratings_count: 45138
about: Bernard Malamud was an American novelist and short story writer. Along with  Saul Bellow,  Joseph Heller,  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. His 1966 novel The Fixer (also filmed), about antisemitism in the Russian Empire, won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Bernard Malamud was an American novelist and short story writer. Along with  Saul Bellow,  Joseph Heller,  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. His 1966 novel The Fixer (also filmed), about antisemitism in the Russian Empire, won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. ...more