Bernard Malamud (1914–1986) was the author of such acclaimed
novels as The Natural and The Assistant and a prolific master of
the short story. His first short story collection, The Magic
Barrel, won the National Book Award, and his 1966 novel, The Fixer,
about antisemitism in Tsarist Russia, won both the National
Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. In 1988, the annual PEN/Malamud
award was created in his honor to recognize excellence in the art
of the short story.
Philip Davis, editor, is the author of the definitive
biography Bernard Malamud: A Writer’s Life (2010). He is the editor
of The Reader magazine and Director of the Centre for Research into
Reading, Information and Linguistic Systems, University of
Liverpool.
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