Born in Brooklyn, New York, and educated at the City College of New York and Columbia University, Bernard Malamud is one of a number of post-World War II writers whose works drew heavily on their urban New York, Jewish backgrounds. Malamud’s works often dramatize the tension arising out of the clash between Jewish conscience and American energy and materialism or the difficulty of keeping alive the Jewish sense of community and humanism in American society.
A New Life (1961), The Fixer (1966, winner of both a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize), and Pictures of Fidelman (1969) all have protagonists who struggle with these problems. Malamud’s other novels include The Natural (1952), The Assistant (1957), The Tenants (1971), and God’s Grace (1982), and his short stories are collected in The Magic Barrel (1958, winner of the National Book Award in 1959), Idiots First (1963), and Rembrandt’s Hat (1973).
Malamud's Works
The Natural (1952)
The Assistant (1957)
A New Life (1961)
Idiots First (1963)
The Fixer (1966)
Pictures of Fidelman: An Exhibition (1969)
The Tenants (1971)
Rembrandt's Hat (1973)
Dubin's Lives (1979)
God's Grace (1982)
The Stories of Bernard Malamud (1984)
The People and Uncollected Stories (1989)
