biography
pronunciation:
[malamuhd]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1914–86)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in New York City, New York, USA. His Russian-Jewish parents ran a small grocery store, and he used such biographical material in much of his writing. He studied at the College of the City of New York (1936 BA) and Columbia University (1942 MA), then worked for the Census Bureau in Washington, DC (1940), and taught English at New York City evening schools (1940–9). He moved up to college teaching, first at Oregon State (1949–61), then at Bennington (1961–86). His first novel, The Natural (1952), is regarded as launching the modern tradition of serious baseball fiction, while many of his later novels, such as The Assistant (1957) and The Fixer (1966), were contemporary morality tales based on the Jewish experience. |
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