WRITER

Bernard Malamud

1914 - 1986

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Bernard Malamud (April 26, 1914 – March 18, 1986) was an American novelist and short story writer. Along with Saul Bellow, Joseph Heller, Isaac Bashevis Singer, 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bernard Malamud has received more than 593,763 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Bernard Malamud is the 1,708th most popular writer (up from 1,773rd in 2019), the 2,139th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,297th in 2019) and the 184th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 590k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.40

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.76

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The Assistant
Criminals, Fiction, Grocers
The natural
Baseball players, Fiction, Baseball
The tenants
Fiction in English, Relations with Jews, Fiction
A new life
College teachers, Fiction, Recovering alcoholics
The fixer
Fiction, Trials (Murder), Jews
The magic barrel
Americans, Fiction, Jews

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Bernard Malamud ranks 1,708 out of 7,302Before him are Jean Bodel, Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, Shen Yue, Táhirih, Sheridan Le Fanu, and Boris Akunin. After him are Kateb Yacine, Mao Dun, Hadewijch, Lucinda Riley, Hermann Bahr, and Pierre Plantard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Bernard Malamud ranks 86Before him are Nicolas de Staël, Yakov Zeldovich, Demetrios I of Constantinople, Arthur Kennedy, Martin Gardner, and Richard Basehart. After him are Ferenc Fricsay, Edmund Conen, Princess Maria Francesca of Savoy, Carlos Castillo Armas, Annie Fischer, and Marcos Pérez Jiménez. Among people deceased in 1986, Bernard Malamud ranks 66Before him are Sterling Hayden, Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, Omar Ali Saifuddien III, Jorge Alessandri, Gunnar Björnstrand, and Alfredo Binda. After him are Ernst Neufert, Maurice Duruflé, Lyudmila Rudenko, Sandro Puppo, Elio de Angelis, and Cheikh Anta Diop.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bernard Malamud ranks 2,139 out of 20,380Before him are Will Eisner (1917), George Smith (1941), Richard Bull (1924), Vera Farmiga (1973), Roger Ailes (1940), and Robert Hansen (1939). After him are Lance Reddick (1962), Thomas Eakins (1844), James J. Braddock (1905), Henry J. Heinz (1844), Alexander Shulgin (1925), and John O'Keefe (1939).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Bernard Malamud ranks 184Before him are Ira Levin (1929), Martin Gardner (1914), Theodore Sturgeon (1918), Upton Sinclair (1878), Fredric Jameson (1934), and R. L. Stine (1943). After him are Lewis Mumford (1895), Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930), E. E. Cummings (1894), Ken Wilber (1949), William Carlos Williams (1883), and Joan Didion (1934).