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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

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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 · 46,797 ratings · 3,778 reviews · 159 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Fixer by Bernard Malamud, Jonathan Safran Foer (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.98 avg rating — 11,987 ratings — published 1966 — 192 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Natural by Bernard Malamud, Kevin Baker (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.61 avg rating — 12,437 ratings — published 1952 — 137 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Assistant by Bernard Malamud, Jonathan Rosen (Introduction) 3.90 avg rating — 11,189 ratings — published 1957 — 140 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Magic Barrel 3.93 avg rating — 2,844 ratings — published 1950 — 115 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tenants by Bernard Malamud, Aleksandar Hemon (Introduction) 3.59 avg rating — 1,197 ratings — published 1971 — 60 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Stories by Bernard Malamud, Robert Giroux (Editor, Introduction) 4.23 avg rating — 875 ratings — published 1997 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A New Life by Bernard Malamud, Jonathan Lethem (Introduction) 3.73 avg rating — 706 ratings — published 1961 — 51 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	God's Grace by Bernard Malamud, Dara Horn (Introduction) 3.60 avg rating — 549 ratings — published 1982 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dubin's Lives by Bernard Malamud, Thomas Mallon (Introduction) 3.75 avg rating — 477 ratings — published 1977 — 62 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Idiots First 3.81 avg rating — 376 ratings — published 1963 — 60 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Bernard Malamud (?)

“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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Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 317 pgs, 1933

63 votes, 18.4%

The Castle by Franz Kafka, 316 pgs, 1926

39 votes, 11.4%

My Ántonia by Willa Cather, 232 pgs, 1918

34 votes, 9.9%

Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner, 320 pgs, 1936

29 votes, 8.5%

All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, 439 pgs, 1946

25 votes, 7.3%

Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières, 437 pgs, 1994

20 votes, 5.8%

The Wreath by Sigrid Undset, 305 pgs, 1920

20 votes, 5.8%

Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons, 233 pgs, 1932

19 votes, 5.6%

The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa, 544 pgs, 1982

18 votes, 5.3%

Peyton Place by Grace Metalious, 384 pgs, 1956

13 votes, 3.8%

Ross Poldark by Winston Graham, 379 pgs, 1945

13 votes, 3.8%

The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton, 370 pgs, 1913

11 votes, 3.2%

The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim, 232 pgs, 1922

9 votes, 2.6%

The Unknown Soldier by Väinö Linna, 338 pgs, 1954

8 votes, 2.3%

The Professor's House by Willa Cather, 256 pgs, 1925

7 votes, 2.0%

The Fixer by Bernard Malamud, 335 pgs, 1966

4 votes, 1.2%

A House for Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipaul, 623 pgs, 1961

4 votes, 1.2%

Martin Eden by Jack London, 480 pgs, 1909

3 votes, 0.9%

Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain, 688 pgs, 1933

3 votes, 0.9%

342 total votes

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