The Magic Barrel | Author Biography
Bernard Malamud was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1914 to Russian Jewish immigrants named Max and Bertha Malamud. He later described his parents as ‘‘gentle, honest, kindly people.’’ Max, the manager of a small grocery store, was the model for Morris Bober, the grocer protagonist of Malamud’s second novel, The Assistant (1957). Malamud went to high school in Brooklyn and attended the City College of New York, graduating in 1936. In 1942 he received a Master of Arts degree from Columbia University.
Malamud did not begin writing seriously until after World War II, when the...
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