Bernard was very adventurous as a boy, he enjoyed skating, climbing trees, and playing running games. In time he got to know many people all over the neighborhood. Being that Brooklyn had relatively no Jews, Malamud sometimes found it difficult to fit in. Bernard has jokingly quoted as saying he was "discovered at Erasmus Hall High School,” where my compositions received high grades and my work appeared in the high school magazine.” Bernard knew at a young age that he wanted to become a writer, although he never actually committed himself to sit down and compose writing until he was about 27 years of age. (Solotaroff 429)

After graduating high school Malamud enrolled in the College of the City of New York and, after graduating with a B.A. degree in 1936, he worked in a factory, in various stores, and as a clerk in the Census Bureau in Washington, D.C. He has written a few short stories in college, and after graduation he began to write again in his spare ti

Bernard married Ann Chrara on November 6, 1945. The couple lived in Bennington, Vermont where they had two children Paul, and Janna. In recent years he has been teaching on a quarter schedule at Bennington College and spending several months each year in New York City. They say he tries to do some writing each day and likes to spend his leisure time reading listening to music, visiting art galleries, playing poker and doing on walks. (Moritz 274)

Today, Malamud is widely regarded as a leader of the post-World War II Jewish literary renaissance. Although most of his stories are about Jews, he is less concerned with being Jewish as with being human. Most of his stories are about individuals struggling to survive and these people are mostly symbolized by poor Jews. (Lardinois)

He later went on to write several other books. The Assistant 1957 is about a young Gentile hoodlum and an old Jewish grocer. The Fixer 1966 takes place in tsarist Russia. (BRITANNICA) His novel won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1967. It was about the suffering of a Russian Jewish workman sentenced unjustly to prison. Therefore it is a tale of the Holocaust. (Lardinois)

But Malamud isn't only famous for his novels. His short stories, which mix his compassion for Je

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