Bernard Malamud

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born

April 28, 1914 in Brooklyn, New York, The United States

died

March 18, 1986

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Literature & Fiction

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Bernard Malamud was an author of novels and short stories. Along with Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, he was one of the great 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 for Fiction.

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Average rating: 3.80 · 8,811 ratings · 728 reviews · 28 distinct works

	The Natural by Bernard Malamud, Kevin Baker (Introduction) 3.55 avg rating — 2,699 ratings — published 1952 — 35 editions	My rating:
	The Fixer by Bernard Malamud, Jonathan Safran Foer (Introduction) 3.97 avg rating — 2,223 ratings — published 1966 — 28 editions	My rating:
	The Assistant by Bernard Malamud, Jonathan Rosen (Introduction) 3.81 avg rating — 1,946 ratings — published 1957 — 32 editions	My rating:
	The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud, Jhumpa Lahiri (Introduction) 4.04 avg rating — 493 ratings — published 1962 — 13 editions	My rating:
	The Complete Stories by Bernard Malamud, Robert Giroux (Introduction) 4.32 avg rating — 233 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Tenants by Bernard Malamud, Aleksandar Hemon (Introduction) 3.74 avg rating — 237 ratings — published 1971 — 11 editions	My rating:
	God's Grace by Bernard Malamud, Dara Horn (Introduction) 3.53 avg rating — 158 ratings — published 1982 — 15 editions	My rating:
	A New Life by Bernard Malamud, Jonathan Lethem (Introduction) 3.66 avg rating — 145 ratings — published 1961 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Dubin's Lives by Bernard Malamud, Thomas Mallon 3.62 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 2003 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Idiots First 3.93 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 1963 — 11 editions	My rating:

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“There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go--if there are no doors or windows--he walks through a wall.”
― Bernard Malamud

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“Where to look if you've lost your mind?”
― Bernard Malamud, The Fixer

tags: crazy , insanity , mind , sanity

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“We have two lives... the life we learn with and the life we live after that. Suffering is what brings us towards happiness.”
― Bernard Malamud, The Natural

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