Bernard Malamud Writer

Bernard Malamud (April 26, 1914 – March 18, 1986) was an American author of novels and short stories. 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, about antisemitism in Tsarist Russia, won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

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Birth date	April 26, 1914
Birth place	New York City , Brooklyn , United States , New York
Nationality	United States
Date of death	March 18, 1986
Place of death	New York City , Manhattan , United States , New York

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Writer

Career start	1949
Career end	1986
genre	Short story Novel
influenced	Nathan Englander Jacob M. Appel Clark Blaise Joe Hill (writer)
influenced by	Nathaniel Hawthorne Henry James