His masterpiece --Philip Roth The Fixer deserves to rank alongside the great Jewish-American novels of Saul Bellow and Philip Roth --Independent A novel of great power, even grandeur --Life What makes it a great book, above and beyond its glowing goodness, has to do with something else altogether: its necessity -- Jonathan Safran Foer He writes with wisdom, compassion and humour... in the best tradition of Chekhov, Joyce and Hemingway --New York Times

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 great American-Jewish authors of the twentieth century. His baseball novel, The Natural, was adapted into a 1984 film starring Robert Redford. His 1966 novel The Fixer, won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.