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It was all those biographies in me yelling, 'We want out. We want to tell you what we've done to you.'

Bernard Malamud

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Bernard Malamud
Age: 71 †
Born: 1914
Born: April 26
Died: 1986
Died: March 18
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
University Teacher
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Brooklyn
New York
Yelling
Biographies
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