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): April 26 • Caro Emerald • Christian Leopold von Buch • Daesung • Eva Aschoff • John II of France • Joseph Ward • Koo Stark • Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily • Richard Mitchell • Yuliya Zaripova
Born in the same month (April 1914): Alec Guinness • B. R. Chopra • Betty Lou Gerson • Charles Beetham • David Goodall (botanist) • Domnitsa Lanitou-Kavounidou • Dorothy Lewis Bernstein • Felice Borel • George Davis (art director) • John Hodiak • Mac Raboy • Marguerite Duras • María Félix • Michael Wittmann • Michel Mohrt • Orhan Veli Kanık • Phil Watson • Ralph Flanagan • William Castle