Learn more about the Jewish American writers Bernard Malamud and Philip Roth.

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  1. 3. (Prize) The Fixer: Bernard Malamud won this honour for the novel.
  2. 6. The Assistant: Set in this city, Bernard Malamud’s novel depicts the lives of immigrants and their distorted world.
  3. 9. The Human Stain: He is the eminent professor of Classics who is forced to resign for a verbal attack against two students from Africa.
  4. 10. The Tenants: This character struggles to complete his novel that he began writing 10 years earlier.
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  1. 1. A New Life: He is the newly appointed instructor at Cascadia College yearning for transcendence.
  2. 2. (Nathan) My Life as a Man: The protagonist is Philip Roth’s alter ego.
  3. 4. The Fixer: He is the Jew blamed for the murder of a young Russian boy.
  4. 5. American Pastoral: A high school sports star who grows up to embody every aspect of the American Dream.
  5. 7. (Roy Hobbs) The Natural: He is a baseball player who aims to be the best in the game.
  6. 8. (Finkle) The Magic Barrel: He spent six years studying to become a rabbi at Yeshiva University in New York.