Bernard Malamud
Bernard Malamud was an American novelist and short story writer. Along with Saul Bellow, Joseph Heller, Norman Mailer 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 antisemitism in the Russian Empire, won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
26 April 1914
Born on the same birth date (26 April 1914): James Rouse
Born on the same birth day (26 April): Alberto Quintano • Alice de Toeni, Countess of Warwick • Anita Loos • Anne McLaren • April 26 • Bernie Brillstein • Carol Burnett • Chris Mars • Coke (footballer) • Delon Wright • Eyvind Earle • Harry Gallatin • Jack Douglas (actor) • Joan Chen • John Corabi • Jules and Gédéon Naudet • Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily • Marilyn Nelson • Paul-Émile Léger • Ruut Tarmo • Samantha Cristoforetti • Stana Katic • Susannah Harker • Vicente Aleixandre
Born in the same month (April 1914): Betty Lou Gerson • David Goodall (botanist) • Domnitsa Lanitou-Kavounidou • George Davis (art director) • José Quiñones Gonzales • Norman McLaren • Orhan Veli Kanık • Phil Watson • Ray Getliffe • Ross Lockridge Jr.