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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 · 47,727 ratings · 3,963 reviews · 155 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Fixer by Bernard Malamud, Jonathan Safran Foer (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.99 avg rating — 12,183 ratings — published 1966 — 97 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 — 12,727 ratings — published 1952 — 61 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 — 11,381 ratings — published 1957 — 90 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 3.92 avg rating — 2,897 ratings — published 1950 — 74 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) 3.57 avg rating — 1,227 ratings — published 1971 — 11 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 — 883 ratings — published 1997 — 25 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 — 723 ratings — published 1961 — 53 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 — 558 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 — 487 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 3.82 avg rating — 384 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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The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories H.P. Lovecraft

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The Natural Bernard Malamud

5 votes, 2.4%

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