(1914 – 1986) Pulitzer-prize winning novelist and short-story author, born in Brooklyn, whose works chronicle many facets of the Jewish experience in America, as well as themes of memory justice, race and class relations and baseball (The Natural, 1942). Power-fully written in elegant prose with poignant characters and encounters, these seminal works also include The Fixer (1966), The Tenant (1971), Dubin’s Lives (1979) and God’s Grace (1982). His complete collected stories were published in 1983.