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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, 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 566,056 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Bernard Malamud is the 1,777th most popular writer (up from 1,830th in 2019), the 2,299th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,295th in 2019) and the 211th most popular American Writer.

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  • 570k

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  • 56.22

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  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Bernard Malamud ranks 1,777 out of 5,755Before him are Alexander Imich, Peter Shaffer, Alejandra Pizarnik, Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Petar Kočić, and Meleager of Gadara. After him are Theodor Nöldeke, Viktor Barna, André Brink, György Konrád, Elvira Madigan, and Aphra Behn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Bernard Malamud ranks 90Before him are Bill Finger, Birabongse Bhanudej, Pietro Germi, Carlos Castillo Armas, Omar Ali Saifuddien III, and Max Manus. After him are Woody Strode, Princess Maria Francesca of Savoy, Nicanor Parra, Ilmari Juutilainen, Erich Topp, and Dürrüşehvar Sultan. Among people deceased in 1986, Bernard Malamud ranks 74Before him are Maurice Duruflé, Alfredo Binda, Arthur Grumiaux, Lyudmila Rudenko, Gia Carangi, and Omar Ali Saifuddien III. After him are Elio de Angelis, Alexandre Tansman, Christopher Isherwood, Thierry Sabine, Ferdinand Daučík, and Aleksandr Akimov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bernard Malamud ranks 2,299 out of 18,182Before him are Jason Bateman (1969), James Levine (1943), Bea Arthur (1922), Don Cheadle (1964), Tod Browning (1880), and Billy Zane (1966). After him are Jim Caviezel (1968), Selena Gomez (1992), William Sadler (1950), Van Heflin (1908), Brad Dexter (1917), and Danny Elfman (1953).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Bernard Malamud ranks 211Before him are E. Howard Hunt (1918), Patricia Cornwell (1956), Raymond E. Feist (1945), Edmond Hamilton (1904), Fredric Jameson (1934), and Joseph D. Pistone (1939). After him are Robert Silverberg (1935), Donald E. Westlake (1933), Cornell Woolrich (1903), Maria Shriver (1955), Herman J. Mankiewicz (1897), and Frederik Pohl (1919).