Bernard Malamud

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Bernard Malamud


Born
in Brooklyn, New York, The United States
April 26, 1914

Died
March 18, 1986

Genre
Literature & Fiction

Influences
Anton Chekhov, Dostoyevsky, Henry James, Nathaniel Hawthorne ...more


Bernard Malamud was an American novelist and short story writer. Along with Saul Bellow, Joseph Heller, 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. ...more

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Average rating: 3.83 · 46,871 ratings · 3,789 reviews · 159 distinct works • Similar authors
The Fixer
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3.98 avg rating — 12,004 ratings — published 1966 — 192 editions
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The Natural
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3.61 avg rating — 12,456 ratings — published 1952 — 137 editions
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The Assistant
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3.90 avg rating — 11,210 ratings — published 1957 — 140 editions
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The Magic Barrel
3.93 avg rating — 2,849 ratings — published 1950 — 115 editions
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The Tenants
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3.59 avg rating — 1,201 ratings — published 1971 — 60 editions
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The Complete Stories
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4.23 avg rating — 877 ratings — published 1997 — 10 editions
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A New Life
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3.73 avg rating — 707 ratings — published 1961 — 51 editions
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God's Grace
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3.60 avg rating — 550 ratings — published 1982 — 43 editions
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Dubin's Lives
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3.75 avg rating — 479 ratings — published 1977 — 62 editions
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Idiots First
3.81 avg rating — 377 ratings — published 1963 — 60 editions
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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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Polls

January 2020 New School Classic Poll

Stoner by John Williams, 1965, 278 pages
 
  78 votes, 27.8%

Blindness by José Saramago, 1995, 326 pages
 
  74 votes, 26.3%

Quicksand by Nella Larsen, 1928, 192 pages
 
  41 votes, 14.6%

A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul, 1979, 326 pages
 
  36 votes, 12.8%

In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes, 1947, 256 pages
 
  33 votes, 11.7%

The Fixer by Bernard Malamud, 1966, 335 pages
 
  19 votes, 6.8%

281 total votes
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