![]() ![]() He first worked for the Bureau of the Census in Washington D.C., then taught English in New York, mostly high school night classes for adults. He was excused from military service in World War II because he was the sole support of his widower father. In 1942, he obtained a master's degree from Columbia University, writing a thesis on Thomas Hardy. He received his BA degree from City College of New York in 1936. Malamud worked for a year at $4.50 a day (equivalent to $89 in 2021) as a teacher-in-training, before attending college on a government loan. He was especially fond of Charlie Chaplin's comedies. ![]() During his youth, he saw many films and enjoyed relating their plots to his school friends. From 1928 to 1932, Bernard attended Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn. Malamud entered adolescence at the start of the Great Depression. A brother, Eugene, born in 1917, suffered from mental illness, lived a hard and lonely life and died in his fifties. Biography īernard Malamud was born in 1914 in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Bertha (née Fidelman) and Max Malamud, Russian Jewish immigrants. His 1966 novel The Fixer (also filmed), about antisemitism in the Russian Empire, won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. His baseball novel, The Natural, was adapted into a 1984 film starring Robert Redford. 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. Bernard Malamud (April 26, 1914 – March 18, 1986) was an American novelist and short story writer. ![]()
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