Bernard Malamud
26 Apr 1914 – 18 Mar 1986
143 works in the book catalog catalog
Biography
Bernard Malamud (April 26, 1914 – March 18, 1986) 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. His 1966 novel *The Fixer* (also filmed), about antisemitism in the Russian Empire, won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
Most-read books
The natural
3.3 · 1952 · 89 want to read
The Fixer
4.5 · 1901 · 54 want to read
Fifty Best American Short Stories
1965 · 57 want to read
The Assistant
4.7 · 1957 · 52 want to read
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The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
4 · 1952 · 44 want to read
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
1999 · 35 want to read
Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
1989 · 20 want to read
The magic barrel
5 · 1953 · 16 want to read
The tenants
3.7 · 1971 · 8 want to read
Wandering Stars
5 · 1974 · 10 want to read
The Situation of the Story
3.5 · 1993 · 7 want to read
A new life
1961 · 4 want to read
The Best American Short Stories 1973
1973 · 5 want to read
The Penguin Book of American Short Stories
4 · 1971 · 5 want to read
The Complete Stories
1998 · 3 want to read
Idiots first
4 · 1963 · 2 want to read
Pygmalion and Related Readings
1997 · 2 want to read
Dubin's lives
4 · 1979 · 1 want to read
The Fixer / The Natural / The Assistant
1992 · 1 want to read
Short stories
1983 · 2 want to read
God's grace
1982 · 2 want to read
Rembrandt's hat
1968 · 1 want to read
Modern Short Stories
1991 · 2 want to read
Idiots First
1963 · 1 want to read