Bernard Malamud, American novelist and short story writer (died 1986)

Bernard Malamud

American writer (1914–1986)

Bernard Malamud 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 Jewish authors of the 20th century. His baseball novel, The Natural, was adapted…