They had two children, Paul and Janna, the latter of which has penned a memoir about Bernard entitled My Father is a Book. The Natural, Bernard Malamuds first novel, published in 1952, is also the firstand some would say still the bestnovel ever written about baseball. Malamud met his wife, Ann De Chiara in 1942, and the pair married a few years later. Additionally, both The Fixer and The Natural were adapted as popular films. His 1966 novel The Fixer, about the trial of a Jewish man in Tsarist Russia, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Malamud’s writing bears the influence of his upbringing during the Great Depression: his characters are often working class or poor, bound to lives of suffering and punishment. Extolled as one of the preeminent mid-Twentieth AmericanJewish authors alongside Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, many of Malamud’s eight novels and fifty-five short stories speak to the American Jewish experience, as well as issues related to Jewish immigration and racial identity. He then worked as a teacher and an English professor before achieving success as a writer. He earned a BA from City College of New York and went on to earn his master’s degree from Columbia University. Malamud was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Russian Jewish immigrants. Theres an old baseball legend about the kid out of nowhere who boards a train for a tryout in Chicago with nothing but his toothbrush and a bat he calls Wonderboy.
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