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Unit 20 The Magic Barrel ___Bernard Malamud Bernard Malamud Bernard Malamud (April 26, 1914?– March 18, 1986) was an American author of novels and short stories. Along with Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, he was one of the best known American Jewish authors of the 20th century. His baseball novel, The Natural, was adapted into a 1984 film starring Robert Redford. His 1966 novel The Fixer (also filmed), about anti-Semitism in Tsarist Russia, won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize 1 Early life 2 Writing career 3 Awards 4 Themes 5 Quotations 6 Works Early life Bernard Malamud was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Bertha and Max Malamud, Russian Jewish immigrants. Malamud entered adolescence at the start of the Great Depression. From 1928 to 1932, Bernard attended Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn. Writing career He completed his first novel, The Light Sleeper, in 1948, but later burned the manuscript. His first published novel was The Natural (1952), which has become one of his best remembered and most symbolic works. Malamud’s second novel, The Assistant (1957), set in New York and drawing on Malamuds own childhood, is an account of the life of Morris Bober, a Jewish immigrant who owns a grocery store in Brooklyn. Although he is struggling financially, Bober takes in a drifter of dubious character. In 1967, his novel The Fixer, about anti-semitism in Tsarist Russia, won the both the National Book Award for Fiction and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Malamud is also renowned for his short stories, often oblique allegories set in a dreamlike urban ghetto of immigrant Jews. The Magic Barrel was his first published collection of short stories (1958) and won Malamud the first of two National Book Awards he received in his lifetime. Awards National Book Award (1959) Fiction, The Magic Barrel (1967) Fiction, The Fixer Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1967) The Fixer O. Henry Award (1969) Man in the Drawer PEN/Malamud A