New York: The Fixer, Bernard Malamud’s novel about anti–Semitism in czarist Russia—was subsequently awarded both the National Book Award, as well as the Pulitzer Prize.
His first four noted works were:
Armistice (short story) [1940]
The Natural (novel) [1952] eventually the baseball movie with Robert Redford
The Assistant (novel) [1957] about a Jewish American immigrant who takes in a drifter
The Magic Barrel (short story collection) [1958]
winner, National Book Award
His 1969 Man in the Drawer won the O. Henry Award (short stories, of course).
A CCNY grad, Malamud was one of the leading American Jewish authors of the 20th century (b. 1914, Brooklyn; d. 1996, NY).
“I write a book or a short story three times. Once to understand her, the second time to improve her prose, and a third to compel her to say what it still must say.”