Bernard Malamud
Bernard Malamud Born (1914-04-26)April 26, 1914 Brooklyn, New York, USA Died March 18, 1986(1986-03-18) (aged 71) Manhattan, New York Occupation Author, teacher Nationality American Period 1940–1985 Genre Novel, short story Bernard Malamud (April 26, 1914 – March 18, 1986) was an American author of novels and short stories. Along with Saul Bellow 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, about antisemitism in Tsarist Russia, won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.