Bernard Malamud Papers 1930-1989 (bulk 1949-1986)

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Bernard Malamud Papers 1930-1989 (bulk 1949-1986)

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Author. Part I contains correspondence, drafts, memoranda, manuscripts, notes and outlines, legal and financial records, printed matter, and other papers relating to Malamud's life and work as a novelist and short story writer, including his relations with editors, literary agents, and publishers, his work on theatrical and motion picture adaptations, his defense of free speech, and his support of the artistic community. Part II supplements the topics and files in Part I and also includes notes and outlines for classroom lectures given by Malamud at Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont, and drafts and notes for public lectures and readings.

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Novelist and short story writer Bernard Malamud was born in 1914 and raised in Brooklyn. His parents were Russian Jewish immigrants, and his heritage would play a key role in his development as a writer. He was also influenced by growing up during the the Depression and by 19th-century writers such as Hawthorne and Melville. His bittersweet, tragicomic stories often merge reality and fantasy, and explore the human condition through themes of suffering and moral obligation. His work has won many ...

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Russell and Volkening is one of New York's oldest literary agencies, opened in 1940 by Diarmuid Russell and Henry Volkening. They represented some of the most noted writers in the history of American publishing, including Eudora Welty, Bernard Malamud, Anne Tyler, George Plimpton, Barbara Tuchman, Saul Bellow, Ann Petry, A. J. Liebling, and Nadine Gordimer. In 1972, they sold their agency to Timothy Seldes, formerly the Managing Editor of Doubleday, Vice President of Macmillan, and ...

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P.E.N. American Center is the American branch of an international organization of writers which includes poets, playwrights, editors, essayists and novelists. From the description of P.E.N. (PEN) American Center archives, 1922-2008 (bulk 1930s-1989) (Princeton University Library). WorldCat record id: 247993823 The PEN Translation Fund was established by PEN America in the summer of 2003 through a gift from an anonymous donor in response to "the dismayingly low number of lite...

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Malamud, Bernard

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Biographical Note 1914, Apr. 26 Born, Brooklyn, N.Y. 1936 B.A., City College of New York, New York, N.Y. 1936 1940 Worked in a factory, at various stores, and as a clerk in the Census Bureau, Was...

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The National Institute of Arts and Letters (founded 1898) and the American Academy of Arts and Letters (founded 1904) merged in 1976 to form the present organization. Members are elected annually from the fields of art, literature, and music and include painters, sculptors, print-makers, composers, novelists, poets, historians, biographers, critics, playwrights, architects, and essayists. Honorary members include artists from foreign countries as well as American dancers, photographers, publishe...