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Bernard Malamud

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The Resume

    (April 26, 1914-March 18, 1986)
    Born in Brooklyn, New York
    Wrote the novels 'The Natural' (1952), 'The Assistant' (1957), 'A New Life' (1961), 'The Fixer' (1966), 'The Tenants' (1971), 'Dubin's Lives' (1979) and 'God's Grace' (1982)
    Wrote the short story collections 'The Magic Barrel' (1958), 'Idiots First' (1963), 'Pictures of Fidelman' (1969) and 'Rembrandt's Hat' (1974)

Why he might be annoying:

    He burned the manuscript of his unpublished first novel (1948).
    His wife told him he was a good writer, but not 'a great writer such as Faulkner or Joyce.
    While teaching at Bennington College, he had an affair with a student nearly three decades his junior.
    His publisher scoffed at the idea of a biography, saying, 'As a life, it was unexciting. Saul Bellow was filet mignon, Malamud was hamburger.'

Why he might not be annoying:

    When he was thirteen, he stopped his mother from committing suicide.
    Flannery O'Connor said of him, 'I have discovered a short-story writer who is better than any of them, including myself.'
    He won the Pulitzer Prize and two National Book Awards.
    He said, 'Writers who can't invent stories often pursue other strategies, even substituting style for narrative.... They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he painted chairs.'

Credit: C. Fishel


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Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 23 Votes: 47.83% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 3 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 20 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 9 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 19 Votes: 52.63% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 33 Votes: 57.58% Annoying