Bernard Malamud

Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 590-592. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.

His next two novels, "A New Life" (1961) and "Idiots First" (1963), got a mixed reception, but his following novel, "The Fixer" in 1967, won him the National Book Award in addition to a Pulitzer Prize (it was also made into a very successful film, The Fixer (1968)).

In the 1960s he rode the wave of interest in authors writing about Jewish traditions and the Jewish experience in the US (in 1964 he was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Sciences).

In 1959 he won the National Book Award for fiction.

His second novel, "The Assistant", came out in 1957 and the result was much different--it sold quite well and brought him into the public eye.

He wrote his first novel, "The Natural", in 1952 (later made into a hit film, The Natural (1984)), but it didn't attract much notice.

in 1942. After graduation he was a high-school English teacher for most of the rest of the decade and then was offered a job as a Professor of English at Oregon State College, which he accepted.

Celebrated writer Bernard Malamud was born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1914. He was educated at the City College of New York (CCNY) and New York's Columbia University, from which he graduated with an M. A.