Creator Bio
Bernard Malamud
1914–1986
Brought up in Brooklyn, New York, Bernard Malamud was a major novelist and short story writer. The honorary consultant in American letters to the Library of Congress, Malamud also taught English at Bennington College. He received the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the O. Henry Award.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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The Last Mohican
Behind him, a short distance to the right, he had noticed a stranger—give a skeleton a couple of pounds—loitering near a bronze statue on a stone pedestal of the heavy-dugged Etruscan wolf suckling…
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The Jewbird
The bird cawed hoarsely and with a flap of its bedraggled wings—feathers tufted this way and that—rose heavily to the top of the open kitchen door, where it perched staring down.
“Gevalt, a pogrom!”
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God’s Grace
At the end, after the thermonuclear war between the Djanks and Druzhkies, in consequence of which they had destroyed themselves, and, madly, all other inhabitants of the earth, God spoke through a…