Bernard Malamud: A Writer's Life

by Philip Davis and Philip Davis

Book Overview

Here is the first full-length biography of Bernard Malamud, the self-made son of poor Jewish immigrants who went on to become one of the foremost novelists and short-story writers of the post-war period, a man who at the peak of his success stood alongside Saul Bellow and Philip Roth in the
ranks of Jewish American writers.

To tell Malamud's story, Philip Davis has drawn on exclusive interviews with family, friends, and colleagues; unfettered...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199270090
• ISBN13: 9780199270095
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.7" x 9.4"