Bernard Malamud would have turned 100 on April 26. On May 1, The Center for Fiction is celebrating his life and work with a panel discussion featuring the Malamud family as well as prominent admirers of the author from literature, cinema, and beyond. The evening will open with old Calliope recordings of Malamud reading his work, and the just-published Library of America compendium of his work will be on sale. Please join us on May 1 to remember a master.

The event was organized by debut novelist Boris Fishman, repaying a debt to an author who taught him perhaps more than any other as he worked on the book. He will moderate the panel, which will also feature Alan Cheuse, Philip Davis, Clark Blaise, Liesl Schillinger, Kevin Baker, Téa Obreht, and Bharati Mukherjee.

About Bernard Malamud

Bernard Malamud (1914 - 1986) was an American author of novels and short stories. Along with Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, he was one of the best-known American Jewish authors of the 20th century. His first short story collection, The Magic Barrel, won the National Book Award, and his 1966 novel The Fixer, about antisemitism in Tsarist Russia, won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. In 1988, the annual PEN/Malamud award was created in his honor to recognize excellence in the art of the short story.

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