Malamud

American

[mal-uh-muhd, -mood] / ˈmæl ə məd, -ˌmʊd /

noun

Bernard, 1914–86, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.

Malamud British

/ ˈmæləməd, -mʊd /

noun

Bernard. 1914–86, US novelist and short-story writer. His works include The Fixer (1966) and Dubin's Lives (1979)

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Bernard Malamud read Priscilla her bedtime stories, while Toni Morrison was just “Aunt Toni.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 14, 2023

The agency began releasing machine-readable data files for Form 990s in 2015, after the lawsuit won by Malamud.

From Salon • Dec. 26, 2022

But he centered those sentences on a culture that, until then, had been the domain of Northern Jewish writers like Bernard Malamud and Saul Bellow.

From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2022

Malamud described recruiting Massa for the expanded role as "more like a desperate bet than a reasoned one," adding that cutting a widening fiscal deficit and rebuilding confidence must be top priorities.

From Reuters • Jul. 29, 2022

To Malamud, that’s stretching the copyright law beyond the breaking point.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2021

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