Novelist
Bernard Malamud
The Natural and The Fixer, and a Pulitzer for the second.
Bernard Malamud was an American novelist and short story writer. Along with Saul Bellow, Joseph Heller, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Norman Mailer and Philip Roth, he was one of the best known American Jewish authors of the 20th century. His baseball novel The Natural was adapted into a 1984 film starring Robert Redford. His 1966 novel The Fixer, about antisemitism in the Russian Empire, won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
- Born
- 1914-04-26, Brooklyn, USAA Sunday
- Died
- 1986-03-18, Manhattan, USAA Tuesday, aged 71
- At birth
- Sun in Taurus, Moon in Taurus
- Nationality
- United States
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
Died
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1914-04-26, Brooklyn, USA · time unknown, noon chart
America/New_Yorkthe zone used then
America/New_YorkThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Taurus | 5°36′ | Direct |
| Moon | Taurus | 19°10′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Aries | 15°08′ | Direct |
| Venus | Taurus | 24°00′ | Direct |
| Mars | Cancer | 27°30′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Aquarius | 19°09′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Gemini | 15°46′ | Direct |
| Uranus | Aquarius | 11°26′ | Direct |
| Neptune | Cancer | 25°32′ | Direct |
| Pluto | Gemini | 29°25′ | Direct |
Death Chart
1986-03-18, Manhattan, USA · time unknown, noon chart
America/New_Yorkthe zone used then
The chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Pisces | 27°48′ | Direct |
| Moon | Gemini | 27°57′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Pisces | 24°08′ | Retrograde |
| Venus | Aries | 11°53′ | Direct |
| Mars | Sagittarius | 25°06′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Pisces | 6°10′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Sagittarius | 9°42′ | Direct |
| Uranus | Sagittarius | 22°20′ | Direct |
| Neptune | Capricorn | 5°42′ | Direct |
| Pluto | Scorpio | 6°57′ | Retrograde |
Their Astrocartography
Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Bernard Malamud was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.
Cast for noon, as the birth time is unknown, so the longitudes are approximate.