Bernard Malamud (1914–86) 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 anti-Semitism in Tsarist Russia, won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
—Bernard Malamud
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We have two lives – the one we learn with and the life we live after that.
—Bernard Malamud
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