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Bertha Malamud was "emotionally unstable" and attempted suicide by swallowing disinfectant in 1927; although her elder son discovered her in time, she died in a mental hospital two years later. [ 6 ] Malamud entered adolescence at the start of the Great Depression , graduating from central Flatbush's storied Erasmus Hall High School in 1932. [ 7 ]
Malamud’s mother died when he was 15 years old, and he was unhappy when his father remarried. He early on assumed responsibility for his handicapped brother. Malamud was educated at the City College of New York (B.A., 1936) and Columbia University (M.A., 1942).
- Bernard Malamud, Robert Giroux
- 1989
Died: March 18, 1986. New York, New York. American author. Bernard Malamud is considered one of the most prominent figures in Jewish American literature, a movement that began in the 1930s and is known for its combination of tragic and comic elements.
Malamud, Bernard 1914–1986. PERSONAL: Born April 28, 1914, in Brooklyn, NY; died of natural causes, March 18, 1986, in New York, NY; son of Max (a grocery store manager) and Bertha (Fidelman) Malamud; married Ann de Chiara, November 6, 1945; children: Paul, Janna. Education: City College of New York (now City College of the City University of ...
From 1979 to 1981 Malamud was president of the PEN (International Association of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists, and Novelists) American Center. He died in Manhattan on March 18,...
His mother, Bertha, died in a mental hospital when he was fifteen. He never aspired to be anything besides a writer: “At eight or nine I was writing little stories in school,” he told an interviewer in 1975.
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Nov 23, 2007 · Malamud died in 1986, and since then his writing has been overshadowed by that of Saul Bellow and Philip Roth. Yet the truth is that his best work deserves to be ranked alongside theirs, for ...
