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Malamud is most renowned for his short stories, oblique allegories often set in a dreamlike urban torturously exacerbated by the pathos of human need unabated." (Malamud's friend and editor Robert Giroux later disputed that Malamud's morality was ever "stern".) '' The Fixer '', his best-known novel, won the National Book Award in 1966 and the Pulitzer Prize For Fiction . Malamud's novel '' The Natural '' was made into a movie starring Robert Redford (described by the film writer David Thomson as "poor baseball and worse Malamud"). Among his other novels were '' The Assistant '', set in a Jewish grocers in New York and drawing on Malamud's own childhood, and '' Dubin's Lives '', a powerful evocation of middle age which uses biography to re-create the narrative richness of its protaganists' lives. His daughter, Janna Malamud Smith, relates her memories of her father in her memoir, ''My Father is a Book''. QUOTES "I write a book or a short story at least three times. Once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say." "The purpose of the writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself." BIBLIOGRAPHY
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