Bernard Malamud
American novelist and short-story writer whose The Natural and The Fixer are among the great American novels. His work explores Jewish-American experience with moral seriousness and mythic resonance. He was a central figure of postwar American literature.
Works
- The NaturalNovel about a baseball player's meteoric rise and tragic fall infused with mythic resonance
- The AssistantNovel of a poor Jewish man's moral redemption through servitude to a grocery store owner
- The FixerNovel following a Jewish handyman falsely imprisoned in Tsarist Russia for a murder
- A New LifeNovel about a professor's midlife crisis and failed attempt to reinvent his life in the West
- The Magic BarrelStory collection exploring Jewish identity, morality, and redemption in contemporary America
- Dubin's LivesNovel about an aging biographer's affair and confrontation with his literary subject's widow