Life is a tragedy full of joy.
Bernard Malamud Quotes
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was. Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
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| Birth: | 26th April, 1904 |
| Death: | 18th March, 1986 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Author, Teacher |
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Bernard Malamud 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, about antisemitism in Tsarist Russia, won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
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