page_title: Bernard Malamud
section_title: Centenary
hierarchical_section_title: Bernard Malamud / Posthumous tributes / Centenary
caption_attribution_description: English: Uploader's description: "The inscription in Bernard Malamud's book "The Natural," which was recently donated to OSU Libraries' Special Collections. The book is an inscribed, first edition. Date: Sept. 2009." Article: [http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2009/sep/inscribed-first-edition-copy-acclaimed-novel-%E2%80%9C-natural%E2%80%9D-donated-osu Inscribed, first-edition copy of acclaimed novel, “The Natural,” donated to OSU"
context_page_description: Bernard Malamud was an American novelist and short story writer. Along with Saul Bellow, Joseph Heller, 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, about antisemitism in the Russian Empire, won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
context_section_description: There were numerous tributes and celebrations marking the centenary of Malamud's birth (April 26, 1914). To commemorate the centenary, Malamud's current publisher (who still keeps most of Malamud's work in print) published on-line (through their blog) some of the "Introductions" to these works. Oregon State University announced that they would be celebrating the 100th birthday "of one of its most-recognized faculty members" (Malamud taught there from 1949 to 1961).
  Media outlets also joined in the celebration. Throughout March, April, and May 2014 there were many Malamud stories and articles on blogs, in newspapers (both print and on-line), and on the radio. Many of these outlets featured reviews of Malamud's novels and stories, editions of which have recently been issued by the Library of America. There were also many tributes and appreciations from fellow writers and surviving family members. Some of the more prominent of these kinds of tributes included those from Malamud's daughter, from Malamud's biographer Philip Davis, and from fellow novelist and short story writer Cynthia Ozick. Other prominent writers who gathered for readings and tributes included Tobias Wolff, Edward P. Jones, and Lorrie Moore.
caption: A signed copy of Malamud's book The Natural held by Oregon State University.[12]
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