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Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Life of Bernard Malamud Born in a Jewish immigrant family in Brooklyn, New York 1914, Malamud spent his early childhood in a small grocery store run by his parents, Bertha Fidelman th Malamud and Max Malamud, who moved from Russia in the early 20 century. At that time, the impoverished family led a miserable life, but Malamud was strongly encouraged by his parents to receive good education. He attended Erasmus Hall High School between 1928 and 1932, and then received his Bachelor’s degree from the City College of New York in 1936 and Master ’s degree from Columbia University in 1942. After graduation, the impact of the 1929 Great Depression failed Malamud’s plan to find a teaching position in New York City, and instead he accepted a federal appointment with the Bureau of Census in Washington D.C. In 1945, he married Ann de Chiara, an Italian woman, and had a son, Paul. Four years after marriage, Malamud was offered a position in the English Department at Oregon State College, Corvallis, teaching courses of freshman composition and sometimes introductory courses to literature, and managed to get promoted to associate professor in 1959. However, the difficulty to pursue a writing career was strongly felt in Oregon State College because it was a technical and agricultural school and in 1961 Malamud joined the faculty of the Language and Literature Division in Bennington College, Vermont. Afterwards, he focused his attention on writing and became quite successful: eight novels and four collections of short stories were published; two National Book Awards and one Pulitzer Prize and numerous other honors received; and memberships in the Nation