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{{short description|American writer (1914–1986)}}
{{Infobox writer
| name             = Bernard Malamud
| image            = Bernard Malamud portrait.jpg
| birth_date       = {{birth date|1914|4|26}}
| birth_place      = [[Brooklyn]], New York, U.S.
| death_date       = {{death date and age|1986|3|18|1914|4|26}}
| death_place      = [[Manhattan]], New York, U.S.
| occupation       = Author, teacher
| period           = 1940–1985<!-- according to his editor Robert Giroux in his Preface to The People -->
| genre            = [[Novel]], [[short story]]
| notableworks     = ''[[The Natural]]'', ''[[The Fixer (novel)|The Fixer]]''
| education        = [[City College of New York]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br>[[Columbia University]] ([[Master of Arts|MA]])
}}
'''Bernard Malamud''' (April 26, 1914&nbsp;– March 18, 1986) was an American novelist and short story writer. Along with [[Saul Bellow]], [[Joseph Heller]], [[Isaac Bashevis Singer]], [[Norman Mailer]] and [[Philip Roth]], he was one of the best known [[American Jews|American Jewish]] authors of the 20th century. His [[baseball]] novel ''[[The Natural]]'' was adapted into [[The Natural (film)|a 1984 film]] starring [[Robert Redford]]. His 1966 novel ''[[The Fixer (novel)|The Fixer]]'' (also [[The Fixer (1968 film)|filmed]]), about [[antisemitism]] in the [[Russian Empire]], won both the [[National Book Award]]<ref name=nba1967/> and the [[Pulitzer Prize]].<ref name=pulitzer/>

== Biography ==
Bernard Malamud was born on April 26, 1914, in [[Brooklyn, New York]], the son of Bertha (née Fidelman) and Max Malamud, [[Russian Jewish]] immigrants who owned and operated a succession of grocery stores in the [[Williamsburg, Brooklyn|Williamsburg]], [[Borough Park, Brooklyn|Borough Park]] and [[Flatbush, Brooklyn|Flatbush]] sections of the borough, culminating in the 1924 opening of a German-style [[delicatessen]] (specializing in "cheap canned goods, bread, vegetables, some cheese and cooked meats")<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Du0TDAAAQBAJ&q=deli | isbn=978-0-19-927009-5 | title=Bernard Malamud: A Writer's Life | date=13 September 2007 | publisher=OUP Oxford | access-date=11 February 2024 | archive-date=12 April 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240412180913/https://books.google.com/books?id=Du0TDAAAQBAJ&q=deli#v=snippet&q=deli&f=false | url-status=live }}</ref>  at 1111 [[McDonald Avenue]] on the western fringe of Flatbush. (Then known as [[Gravesend, Brooklyn|Gravesend]] Avenue, the thoroughfare received its current moniker in 1934, while the surrounding community—abutting the elevated [[BMT Culver Line]] and characterized as a "very poor" subsection of the neighborhood in a contemporaneous demographic survey of [[Brooklyn College]] students<ref>{{cite book | url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015076474587&view=1up&seq=47&skin=2021&q1=gravesend | title=Economic status of Brooklyn college students (In 1933) | date=1935 | access-date=2024-02-09 | archive-date=2024-04-12 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240412180849/https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015076474587&view=1up&seq=47&skin=2021&q1=gravesend | url-status=live }}</ref>—is now considered to be part of the [[Kensington, Brooklyn|Kensington]] section.) A brother, Eugene, born in 1917, suffered from mental illness,<ref>{{Cite news|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/09/books/bernard-malamuds-daughter-finally-tells-his-secrets.html|title = Bernard Malamud's Daughter Finally Tells His Secrets|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 9 March 2006|last1 = Smith|first1 = Dinitia|access-date = 10 August 2020|archive-date = 10 February 2021|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210210224706/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/09/books/bernard-malamuds-daughter-finally-tells-his-secrets.html|url-status = live}}</ref> lived a hard and lonely life and died in his fifties. Bertha Malamud was "emotionally unstable" and attempted suicide by swallowing disinfectant in 1927; although her elder son discovered her in time, she died in a mental hospital two years later.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bookforum.com/print/1405/a-biography-of-bernard-malamud-draws-heavily-on-his-archives-2063 | title=A New Life | access-date=2024-02-08 | archive-date=2023-06-27 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230627043717/https://www.bookforum.com/print/1405/a-biography-of-bernard-malamud-draws-heavily-on-his-archives-2063 | url-status=live }}</ref>

Malamud entered adolescence at the start of the [[Great Depression]], graduating from central Flatbush's storied [[Erasmus Hall High School]] in 1932.<ref>Boyer, David. "[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04EED8143AF932A25750C0A9679C8B63 NEIGHBORHOOD REPORT: FLATBUSH; Grads Hail Erasmus as It Enters a Fourth Century] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130523232437/http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/11/nyregion/neighborhood-report-flatbush-grads-hail-erasmus-as-it-enters-a-fourth-century.html |date=2013-05-23 }}", ''[[The New York Times]]'', March 11, 2001. Retrieved 2007-12-01.</ref> During his youth, he saw many films and enjoyed relating their plots to his school friends. He was especially fond of [[Charlie Chaplin]]'s comedies. He received his [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] degree from the [[City College of New York]] in 1936. Thereafter, Malamud worked for a year at $4.50 a day ({{inflation|US|4.5|1936|fmt=eq}}) as a student teacher; however, he twice failed an examination that would enable him to become a permanent [[substitute teacher]] in the New York City public school system. Momentarily funded by a government loan, he completed the coursework for a [[master's degree]] in English at [[Columbia University]] in 1937-38; although he felt it was "close to a waste of time", he eventually received the degree after submitting a thesis on [[Thomas Hardy]] in 1942. From 1939-40, he was a temporary substitute teacher at [[Lafayette High School (New York City)|Lafayette High School]] in the [[Bath Beach]] section of Brooklyn. He was excused from [[World War II]]-era military service because he was the sole support of his father, who had remarried to Liza Merov in 1932. While working in a temporary capacity for the [[Bureau of the Census]] in [[Washington D.C.]], he contributed sketches to ''[[The Washington Post]]'', marking some of his first published works. Returning to New York after the job ended, he taught English at Erasmus Hall (in its adult-oriented evening session) for nine years while focusing on writing during the day. Toward the end of this period, he also worked at the similarly oriented [[Chelsea, Manhattan|Chelsea]] Vocational High School (where he taught in the day program to supplement his income) and [[Harlem, Manhattan|Harlem]] Evening High School.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cd0REAAAQBAJ&dq=bernard+malamud+flatbush&pg=PT162 | isbn=978-1-61902-200-3 | title=My Father is a Book: A Memoir of Bernard Malamud | date=February 2013 | publisher=Catapult | access-date=2024-02-11 | archive-date=2024-04-12 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240412180951/https://books.google.com/books?id=cd0REAAAQBAJ&dq=bernard+malamud+flatbush&pg=PT162#v=onepage&q=bernard%20malamud%20flatbush&f=false | url-status=live }}</ref>

Starting in 1949, Malamud taught four sections of freshman composition each semester at [[Oregon State University]], an experience fictionalized in his 1961 novel ''[[A New Life (novel)|A New Life]]''. Because he lacked a [[PhD]], he was not allowed to teach literature courses, and for a number of years, his rank was that of instructor; nevertheless, he was promoted to [[assistant professor]] in 1954 and became a tenured [[associate professor]] in 1958. While at OSU, Malamud devoted three days out of every week to his writing, and gradually emerged as a major American author. In 1961, he left OSU to teach creative writing at [[Bennington College]], a position he held until retirement. He was elected to the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1967.

In 1942, Malamud met Ann De Chiara (November 1, 1917&nbsp;– March 20, 2007), an Italian American [[Roman Catholic]], and a 1939 [[Cornell University]] graduate. Despite the opposition of their parents (prompting their relocation from Brooklyn to [[Greenwich Village]]), they married on November 6, 1945. Ann typed his manuscripts and reviewed his writing. They had two children, Paul (b. 1947) and [[Janna Malamud Smith|Janna]] (b. 1952). Janna is the author of a memoir about her father, titled ''My Father Is A Book''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/22/obituaries/22malamud.html|title=Ann DeChiara Malamud, Helpmate to Writer, 89, Dies|newspaper=The New York Times|date=22 March 2007|access-date=12 January 2021|archive-date=14 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114050620/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/22/obituaries/22malamud.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

Malamud was Jewish, an [[Agnosticism|agnostic]], and a [[Humanism|humanist]].<ref>{{cite book|title=American Immigration Aesthetics: Bernard Malamud and Bharati Mukherjee As Immigrants|year=2011|publisher=AuthorHouse|isbn=978-1-4567-8243-6|author=Markose Abraham|page=146|quote=An agnostic humanist, Malamud has unflinching faith in man's ability to choose and make 'his own world' from the 'usable past'.}}</ref> He died in [[Manhattan]] (where he had maintained a winter residence at the [[Upper West Side]]'s [[Lincoln Towers]] since 1972) on March 18, 1986, at the age of 71.<ref>{{cite news|title= Bernard Malamud Dies at 71|author= Rothstein, Mervyn|newspaper= The New York Times|date= March 19, 1986|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/19/books/malamud-obit.html|format= obituary|access-date= 2010-07-30|archive-date= 2017-12-22|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20171222105953/http://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/19/books/malamud-obit.html|url-status= live}}</ref> He is buried in [[Mount Auburn Cemetery]] in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]]. In his writing, Malamud depicts an honest picture of the despair and difficulties of the immigrants to America, and their hope of reaching their dreams despite their poverty.

==Writing career==
Malamud wrote slowly and carefully; he is the author of eight novels<ref>Malamud, Bernard. ''The People: And Other Uncollected Fiction.'' Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989</ref> and four collections of short stories. The posthumously published ''Complete Stories''  contains 55 short stories and is 629 pages long. [[Maxim Lieber]] served as his literary agent in 1942 and 1945.

He completed his first novel, ''The Light Sleeper'', in 1948, but later burned the manuscript. His first published novel was ''[[The Natural]]'' (1952), which has become one of his best remembered and most symbolic works. The story traces the life of Roy Hobbs, an unknown middle-aged baseball player who achieves legendary status with his stellar talent. This novel was made into a 1984 movie starring Robert Redford.

Malamud's second novel, ''[[The Assistant (Malamud novel)|The Assistant]]'' (1957), set in New York and drawing on Malamud's own childhood, is an account of the life of Morris Bober, a Jewish immigrant who owns a grocery store in Brooklyn. Although he is struggling financially, Bober takes in a drifter of dubious character. This novel was quickly followed by ''[[The Magic Barrel]],'' his first published collection of short stories (1958). It won Malamud the first of two National Book Awards that he received in his lifetime.<ref name=nba1959/>

In 1967, his novel ''[[The Fixer (Malamud novel)|The Fixer]]'', about [[antisemitism]] in the [[Russian Empire]], became one of the few books to receive the [[National Book Award for Fiction]] and the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]].<ref name=nba1967/><ref name=pulitzer/> His other novels include ''[[Dubin's Lives]]'', a powerful evocation of middle age (largely inspired by Malamud's own extramarital affairs) that employs biography to recreate the narrative richness of its protagonists' lives, and ''[[The Tenants (novel)|The Tenants]]'', perhaps a meta-narrative on Malamud's own writing and creative struggles, which, set in [[New York City]], deals with racial issues and the emergence of black/[[African American literature]] in the American 1970s landscape.

Malamud was renowned for his short stories, often oblique allegories set in a dreamlike urban [[ghetto]] of immigrant [[Jew]]s. Of Malamud, [[Flannery O'Connor]] wrote: "I have discovered a short-story writer who is better than any of them, including myself." He published his first stories in 1943, "Benefit Performance" in ''Threshold'' and "The Place Is Different Now" in ''American Preface''. Shortly after joining the faculty of Oregon State University, his stories began appearing in ''[[Harper's Bazaar]]'', ''[[The New Yorker]]'', ''[[Partisan Review]]'', and ''[[Commentary (magazine)|Commentary]]''.

==Themes==
Writing in the second half of the twentieth century, Malamud was well aware of the social problems of his day: rootlessness, infidelity, abuse, divorce, and more. But he also depicted love as redemptive and sacrifice as uplifting. In his writings, success often depends on cooperation between antagonists. For example, in "[[The Mourners]]" landlord and tenant learn from each other's anguish. In "The Magic Barrel", the matchmaker worries about his "fallen" daughter, while the daughter and the rabbinic student are drawn together by their need for love and salvation.<ref>[http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/malamud.html "Bernard Malamud (1914–1986)"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724160208/http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/malamud.html |date=2008-07-24 }}. Contributing Editor: Evelyn Avery(?). Georgetown University course materials(?).</ref>

==Posthumous tributes==
[[File:Malamud, Bernard grave.jpg|thumb|right|Grave of Bernard Malamud at [[Mount Auburn Cemetery]]]]
[[Philip Roth]]: "A man of stern morality", Malamud was driven by "the need to consider long and seriously every last demand of an overtaxed, overtaxing [[conscience]] torturously exacerbated by the pathos of human need unabated".<ref>Roth, Philip, "[https://www.nytimes.com/1986/04/20/books/malamud-roth.html?pagewanted=1 Pictures of Malamud] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161108022153/http://www.nytimes.com/1986/04/20/books/malamud-roth.html?pagewanted=1 |date=2016-11-08 }}", ''The New York Times'', April 20, 1986. Retrieved 2008-07-15.</ref>

[[Saul Bellow]], also quoting [[Anthony Burgess]]: "Well, we were here, first-generation Americans, our language was English and a language is a spiritual mansion from which no one can evict us. Malamud in his novels and stories discovered a sort of communicative genius in the impoverished, harsh jargon of immigrant New York. He was a myth maker, a fabulist, a writer of exquisite parables. The English novelist Anthony Burgess said of him that he 'never forgets that he is an American Jew, and he is at his best when posing the situation of a Jew in urban American society.' 'A remarkably consistent writer,' he goes on, 'who has never produced a mediocre novel .... He is devoid of either conventional piety or sentimentality ... always profoundly convincing.' Let me add on my own behalf that the accent of hard-won and individual emotional truth is always heard in Malamud's words. He is a rich original of the first rank."
[Saul Bellow's eulogy to Malamud, 1986]

===Centenary===
[[File:Bernard Malamud The Natural signed copy.jpg|thumb|A signed copy of Malamud's book ''The Natural'' held by Oregon State University.<ref name="Signed copy of the Natural OSU">{{cite web|title=Inscribed, first-edition copy of acclaimed novel, 'The Natural', donated to OSU|url=http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2009/sep/inscribed-first-edition-copy-acclaimed-novel-%E2%80%9C-natural%E2%80%9D-donated-osu|publisher=[[Oregon State University]]|access-date=5 May 2016|archive-date=3 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160603175408/http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2009/sep/inscribed-first-edition-copy-acclaimed-novel-%E2%80%9C-natural%E2%80%9D-donated-osu|url-status=live}}</ref>]]
There were numerous tributes and celebrations marking the [[centenary]] of Malamud's birth (April 26, 1914).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.92y.org/Event/Bernard-Malamud-at-100.aspx|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140422224304/http://www.92y.org/Event/Bernard-Malamud-at-100.aspx|url-status=dead|archive-date=2014-04-22|title=Bernard Malamud at 100|work=92Y}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://centerforfiction.org/calendar/bernard-malamud-tribute|title=Bernard Malamud Tribute, Thursday May 1, 2014 (video)|work=Center for Fiction|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140426125257/http://www.centerforfiction.org/calendar/bernard-malamud-tribute|archive-date=April 26, 2014}}</ref> To commemorate the centenary, Malamud's current publisher (who still keeps most of Malamud's work in print) published on-line (through their blog) some of the "Introductions" to these works.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/category/bernard-malamud-centenary/|title=Bernard Malamud Centenary - Work in Progress|work=Work in Progress|access-date=2014-04-22|archive-date=2014-04-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140425072830/http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/category/bernard-malamud-centenary/|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Oregon State University]] announced that they would be celebrating the 100th birthday "of one of its most-recognized faculty members" (Malamud taught there from 1949 to 1961).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2014/apr/osu-celebrate-100th-birthday-former-faculty-member-bernard-malamud|title=OSU to celebrate 100th birthday of former faculty member Bernard Malamud - News & Research Communications - Oregon State University|access-date=2014-04-22|archive-date=2014-08-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808214536/http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2014/apr/osu-celebrate-100th-birthday-former-faculty-member-bernard-malamud|url-status=live}}</ref>

Media outlets also joined in the celebration. Throughout March, April, and May 2014 there were many Malamud stories and articles on blogs, in newspapers (both print and on-line), and on the radio. Many of these outlets featured reviews of Malamud's novels and stories, editions of which have recently been issued by the [[Library of America]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303730804579435001129600812|title=Book Review: Library of America's Bernard Malamud volumes|author=James Campbell|date=21 March 2014|work=WSJ|access-date=13 March 2017|archive-date=9 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309000153/http://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303730804579435001129600812|url-status=live}}</ref> There were also many tributes and appreciations from fellow writers and surviving family members. Some of the more prominent of these kinds of tributes included those from Malamud's daughter, from Malamud's biographer Philip Davis,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://artsfuse.org/102166/fuse-interview-jewish-american-writer-bernard-malamud-at-100-appreciating-the-beauty-of-the-ethical/|title=Fuse Interview: Jewish-American Writer Bernard Malamud at 100 — Appreciating the Beauty of the Ethical|date=23 March 2014|access-date=22 April 2014|archive-date=3 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140703185921/http://artsfuse.org/102166/fuse-interview-jewish-american-writer-bernard-malamud-at-100-appreciating-the-beauty-of-the-ethical/|url-status=live}}</ref> and from fellow novelist and short story writer [[Cynthia Ozick]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Ozick|first=Cynthia|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/books/review/library-of-americas-bernard-malamud-collections.html?_r=1|title=Judging the World: Library of America's Bernard Malamud Collections|work=The New York Times|date=March 13, 2014|access-date=January 31, 2017|archive-date=March 22, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180322022308/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/books/review/library-of-americas-bernard-malamud-collections.html?_r=1|url-status=live}}</ref> Other prominent writers who gathered for readings and tributes included [[Tobias Wolff]], [[Edward P. Jones]], and [[Lorrie Moore]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.penfaulkner.org/2015/02/09/episode-40-the-legacy-of-bernard-malamud/|title=Episode 40 – The Legacy of Bernard Malamud {{!}} PEN / Faulkner|website=www.penfaulkner.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-03-21|archive-date=2018-03-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180318220045/http://www.penfaulkner.org/2015/02/09/episode-40-the-legacy-of-bernard-malamud/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Awards==
*1958 [[National Jewish Book Award]], winner for ''[[The Assistant (Malamud novel)|The Assistant]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/awards/njba-list |title=National Jewish Book Award past winners |work=jewishbookcouncil.org |access-date=April 23, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116143149/https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/awards/njba-list |archive-date=November 16, 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/awards/national-jewish-book-awards/past-winners|title=Past Winners|website=Jewish Book Council|language=en|access-date=2020-01-19|archive-date=2020-03-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200308182757/https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/awards/national-jewish-book-awards/past-winners|url-status=live}}</ref>
*1959 [[National Book Award for Fiction]], winner for ''[[The Magic Barrel]]''<ref name=nba1959>[https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1959 "National Book Awards – 1959"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190811033142/https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1959/ |date=2019-08-11 }}. [[National Book Foundation]]. Retrieved 2012-03-30. <br/>(With essays by Liz Rosenberg and Harold Augenbraum from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.)</ref>
*1967 [[National Book Award for Fiction]], winner for ''[[The Fixer (Malamud novel)|The Fixer]]''<ref name=nba1967>[https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1967 "National Book Awards – 1967"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328132454/https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1967/ |date=2019-03-28 }}. [[National Book Foundation]]. Retrieved 2012-03-30. <br/>(With essay by Harold Augenbraum from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.)</ref>
*1967 [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]], winner for ''[[The Fixer (Malamud novel)|The Fixer]]''<ref name=pulitzer>[http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Fiction "Fiction"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160103055018/http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Fiction |date=2016-01-03 }}. ''Past winners & finalists by category''. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2012-03-30.</ref>
*1969 [[O. Henry Award]], winner for "Man in the Drawer" in ''The Atlantic Monthly'', April 1968<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.randomhouse.com/anchor/ohenry/winners/past.html|title=The O. Henry Prize Past Winners|website=Randomhouse.com|access-date=30 September 2017|archive-date=5 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170905135754/https://www.randomhouse.com/anchor/ohenry/winners/past.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
*1984 [[PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction]], runner-up for ''The Stories''

'''[[PEN/Malamud Award]]'''

Given annually since 1988 to honor Malamud's memory, the [[PEN/Malamud Award]] recognizes excellence in the art of the short story. The award is funded in part by Malamud's $10,000 bequest to the [[PEN American Center]]. The fund continues to grow thanks to the generosity of many members of PEN and other friends, and with the proceeds from annual readings. Past winners of the award include [[John Updike]] (1988), [[Saul Bellow]] (1989), [[Eudora Welty]] (1992), [[Joyce Carol Oates]] (1996), [[Alice Munro]] (1997), [[Sherman Alexie]] (2001), [[Ursula K. Le Guin]] (2002), and [[Tobias Wolff]] (2006).

==Bibliography==
{{main|Bernard Malamud bibliography}}

===Novels===
* ''[[The Natural]]'' (1952)
* ''[[The Assistant (Malamud novel)|The Assistant]]'' (1957)
* ''[[A New Life (novel)|A New Life]]'' (1961)
* ''[[The Fixer (Malamud novel)|The Fixer]]'' (1966)
* ''[[Pictures of Fidelman|Pictures of Fidelman: An Exhibition]]'' (1969)
* ''[[The Tenants (novel)|The Tenants]]'' (1971)
* ''[[Dubin's Lives]]'' (1979)
* ''[[God's Grace (novel)|God's Grace]]'' (1982)

===Story collections===
* ''[[The Magic Barrel]]'' (1958)
* ''[[Idiots First]]'' (1963)
* ''[[Rembrandt's Hat]]'' (1974)
* ''The Stories of Bernard Malamud'' (1983)
* ''The People and Uncollected Stories'' (includes the unfinished novel ''The People'') (1989)
* ''The Complete Stories'' (1997)

===Short stories===
* "The First Seven Years" (1958)
* "[[The Mourners]]" (1955)
* "[[The Jewbird]]" (1963)
* "The Prison" (1950)
* "A Summer's Reading"
* "Armistice"

===Books about Malamud===
*Smith, Janna Malamud. ''My Father Is a Book: A Memoir of Bernard Malamud''. (2006)
*Davis, Philip. ''Bernard Malamud: A Writer's Life''. (2007)
*Swirski, Peter. "You'll Never Make a Monkey Out of Me or Altruism, Proverbial Wisdom, and Bernard Malamud's ''God's Grace''". ''American Utopia and Social Engineering in Literature, Social Thought, and Political History''.  New York, Routledge 2011.

==References==
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==Sources==
* ''Contemporary Authors Online'', Gale, 2004.
* Contemporary Literary Criticism
* ''Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 28: Twentieth Century American-Jewish Fiction Writers.'' A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by Daniel Walden, Pennsylvania State University. The Gale Group. 1984. pp.&nbsp;166–175.
* Smith, Janna Malamud. ''My Father Is a Book''. Houghton-Mifflin Company. New York: New York. 2006
* Mark Athitakis, "[http://www.neh.gov/humanities/2014/marchapril/feature/the-otherworldly-malamud The Otherworldly Malamud]", Humanities, March/April 2014 | Volume 35, Number 2

==External links==
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*{{cite journal| url=http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3869/the-art-of-fiction-no-52-bernard-malamud| title=Bernard Malamud, The Art of Fiction No. 52| journal=The Paris Review| date=Spring 1975| author=Daniel Stern | volume=Spring 1975| issue=61}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070504061858/http://osulibrary.orst.edu/specialcollections/coll/malamud/index.html The Bernard Malamud Papers] at [[Oregon State University]]
* {{IMDb name|538897|Bernard Malamud}}
* {{Oregon Encyclopedia|malamud_bernard_1914_1986_|author=Clark, Suzanne}}
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