Bernard Malamud
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Bernard Malamud (April 26, 1914 – March 18, 1986) was an American novelist and short story writer.
He was one of the twentieth century's best-known American Jewish writers, alongside Saul Bellow, Joseph Heller, and Philip Roth.
The Natural, his baseball book, was turned into a 1984 film starring Robert Redford.
Both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize were given to his 1966 book The Fixer (also film), which was about antisemitism in the Russian Empire.
Writing career
Malamud wrote slowly and deliberately; he wasn't particularly prolific. He is the author of eight books and four collections of short stories. Complete Stories, which have been posthumously published, has 55 short stories and is 629 pages long. Maxim Lieber served as his literary agent in 1942 and 1945.
In 1948, he wrote The Light Sleeper, his first book, but later burned the manuscript. The Natural (1952), his first published book, has become one of his most well-known and symbolic works. Roy Hobbs, an unidentified middle-aged baseball player who has ascended to fame thanks to his superb talent, is chronicled in this series. This book was turned into a 1984 film starring Robert Redford (described by film writer David Thomson as "poor baseball and worse Malamud").
The Assistant (1957), Malamud's second book, is based on Malamud's own life. Morris Bober, a Jewish immigrant who owns a grocery store in Brooklyn, is the subject of Malamud's second book, The Assistant (1957), set in New York and drawing on Malamud's own story. Although Bober is having financial problems, he portrays himself as a drifter of dubious origins. The Magic Barrel, his first published collection of short stories (1958), was quickly followed by this book. It was one of two National Book Awards that he won in his lifetime.
His book The Fixer, which chronicles anti-semitism in the Russian Empire, received both the National Book Award for Fiction and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1967. Dubin's Lifes, a moving evocation of middle age that uses biography to recreate the narrative richness of its protagonists' lives, and The Tenants, a fictional biography of Malamud's own writing and creative struggles set in New York City, address racial issues and the emergence of black/African American literature in the American 1970s.
Malamud was known for his short stories, many involving oblique allegories set in a dreamlike urban ghetto of immigrant Jews. "I have found a short-story writer who is better than any of them, including myself." In American Preface, he published his first stories in 1943, including "Benefit Performance" in Threshold and "The Place Is Different Now." His stories began in Harper's Bazaar, The New Yorker, Partisan Review, and Commentary in the early 1950s.
Awards
- 1958 National Jewish Book Award, winner for The Assistant
- 1959 National Book Award for Fiction, winner for The Magic Barrel
- 1967 National Book Award for Fiction, winner for The Fixer
- 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, winner for The Fixer
- 1969 O. Henry Award, winner for "Man in the Drawer" in The Atlantic Monthly, April 1968
- 1984 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, runner-up for The Stories