Janna Malamud Smith

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Dear Janna I am an Iranian. I worked on your father's works for my MA thesis. Now I would like to study for my PhD and looking for a scholarship and a thesis guide. I would be glad if you could help me.

I love you...sorry

I am studying your essay "My Son, My Compass" in college. We are comparing it to others and the main question for it is how the authors are stuck in two worlds. As for you being stuck in the one world as how you raised him and the other world about how he became a vegan and took the family on that way also...is he still a vegan and I admire all of you for what you do and you are an inspiration to us women, daughters and mothers alike Kristy....NEW JERSEY

I'm enjoying reading this memoir - it's touchingly human and evocative. It's nice to see Bernard Malamud though your experiences of him as father and writer- and to see the conflicts in him that have colored and added texture to his works. The book also explains a family history that gives perspective to the characters and lives he wrote about. I am grateful for your book, "My Father is a Book." Thank you.