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Bernard Malamud

1914 - 1986

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Bernard Malamud (April 26, 1914 – March 18, 1986) 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 into a 1984 film starring Robert Redford. His 1966 novel The Fixer (also filmed), about antisemitism in the Russian Empire, won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bernard Malamud is the 2,053rd most popular writer (down from 1,707th in 2019), the 3,007th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,139th in 2019) and the 241st most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Bernard Malamud ranks 2,053 out of 7,302. Before him are Herodas, Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Jaume Cabré, Uri Orlev, Eutychius of Alexandria, and Vsevolod Garshin. After him are Eugene Nida, Nodar Dumbadze, Aleksa Šantić, Tom Wolfe, William of Moerbeke, and Maria Konopnicka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Bernard Malamud ranks 113. Before him are Sonny Boy Williamson I, Álvaro del Portillo, Annie Fischer, George Reeves, Kirill Kondrashin, and Jean-Pierre Vernant. After him are Eugene Nida, Carlos Castillo Armas, Go Seigen, Bill Finger, Erich Topp, and Lyman Spitzer. Among people deceased in 1986, Bernard Malamud ranks 87. Before him are Pierre Fournier, Elsa Lanchester, Arthur Grumiaux, Robert Stevenson, Henri Toivonen, and Christa McAuliffe. After him are Christopher Isherwood, Alexandre Tansman, Ernst Neufert, Mart Stam, Princess Yolanda of Savoy, and Moses Finley.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bernard Malamud ranks 3,007 out of 20,380. Before him are Thomas E. Kurtz (1928), Matt LeBlanc (1967), Jonathan Haidt (1963), Tracy Morgan (1968), Edwin Hall (1855), and Jenna Dewan (1980). After him are Eugene Nida (1914), Rob Schneider (1963), Tom Wolfe (1930), T Bone Burnett (1948), Sunita Williams (1965), and Edward Herrmann (1943).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Bernard Malamud ranks 241. Before him are Virginia Henderson (1897), Frances Harper (1825), Walter Tevis (1928), Langston Hughes (1902), Audre Lorde (1934), and Jane Jacobs (1916). After him are Eugene Nida (1914), Tom Wolfe (1930), James E. Gunn (1923), Carl Sandburg (1878), Edmond Hamilton (1904), and Kate Millett (1934).

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