Timeline for Bernard Malamud
| 1914 | Born in Brooklyn, New York on March 21 to Bertha and Max Malamud. Bernard and his
younger brother Eugene will grow up in Brooklyn and attend Erasmus Hall High School. |
| 1936 | Receives his Bachelor of Arts degree from City College of New York. For roughly four years following his graduation, Malamud works in a factory, in a variety of stores and as a clerk for the Census Bureau in Washington, D.C. |
| 1940 | Begins a nine-year period of teaching evening classes in English at his high school
alma mater, Erasmus Hall High School. |
| 1942 | Receives his Master of Arts degree from Columbia University. |
| 1943 | Publishes his first two stories, "Benefit Performance" in Threshold and "The Place is Different Now" in American Preface. |
| 1945 | Marries Ann de Chiara. The couple will have two children, Paul and Janna. |
| 1949 | Moves to Corvallis, Oregon, where he has been hired an Instructor of English at Oregon
State College. |
| 1952 | Publishes The Natural. |
| 1955 | Publishes a children's book Kim of Korea. The story is originally written by Faith G. Norris. Malamud revises the text and
is listed as a co-author under the pseudonym Peter Lumn. |
| 1956 | Receives a one-year fellowship funded by Partisan Review which he uses to write in and travel through Europe. |
| 1957 | Publishes The Assistant. |
| 1958 | Publishes The Magic Barrel. Receives the Rosenthal Foundation Award and the Darroff Memorial Award for The Assistant. |
| 1959 | Receives the National Book Award for The Magic Barrel. Begins a two-year fellowship sponsored by the Ford Foundation. |
| 1961 | Publishes A New Life. Resigns from his position at Oregon State College in favor of a faculty position in the Division of Language and Literature, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont. Malamud will remain affiliated with Bennington College until his death in 1986. |
| 1963 | Publishes Idiots First. |
| 1964 | Elected a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. |
| 1966 | Publishes The Fixer. Accepts a two-year appointment as Visiting Lecture at Harvard University. |
| 1967 | A Malamud Reader, edited by Philip Rahv, is published. Malamud receives the National Book Award (his second) and the Pulitzer Prize for The Fixer. He is also elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. |
| 1969 | Publishes Pictures of Fidelman: An Exhibition. Receives the O. Henry Prize for his short story "Man in the Drawer." |
| 1971 | Publishes The Tenants. |
| 1973 | Publishes Rembrandt's Hat. |
| 1976 | Receives the B'nai B'rith Jewish Heritage Award. |
| 1979 | Publishes Dubin's Lives. Malamud receives the Governor's Award from the Vermont Council on the Arts and is also elected to a two-year term as President of the P.E.N. (poets, playwrights, essayists, editors, and novelists) American Center. |
| 1981 | Receives the Create Arts Award for fiction from Brandeis University. |
| 1982 | Publishes God's Grace. |
| 1983 | Publishes The Stories of Bernard Malamud. Receives the Gold Medal for fiction from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. |
| 1985 | Receives the Premio Mondello Prize in Italy. |
| 1986 | On March 18, Malamud dies of a heart attack in New York City. Two collections of
stories will be published posthumously. |
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