Bernard Malamud

Bernard Malamud was born in Brooklyn in 1914, the son of Jewish immigrants from Russia who kept a grocery store. A graduate of City College, then of Columbia, he taught for nine years in evening classes for adults, then at Oregon State University and Bennington College. He published eight novels and fifty-five short stories, received the National Book Award twice and the Pulitzer Prize, and presided over the PEN American Center. He died in New York in 1986.

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• NovelThe FixerBernard Malamud · 1966Literature