In 1967, his novel "The Fixer", about anti-semitism in the Russian Empire, won both the National Book Award for Fiction and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His other novels include "Dubin's Lives", a powerful evocation of middle age which uses biography to recreate the narrative richness of its protagonists' lives, and "The Tenants", perhaps a meta-narrative on Malamud's own writing and creative struggles, which, set in New York City, deals with racial issues and the emergence of black/African American literature in the American 1970s landscape.