This author of The Assistant and The Fixer wrote a novel in which the New York Knights sign Roy Hobbs, who uses the bat "Wonderboy".
In one of this man's novels, Julius Karp's liquor store is burned down by a thug named Ward Minogue. The protagonist of another of his novels refuses the advances of Zinaida Nikolaevna, the daughter of a man who he'd rescued from freezing to death despite his Black Hundreds pin. Max Mercy investigates a character created by this author who weighs the affections of Iris Lemon and Memo Paris and is (*) shot by Harriet Bird. Frank Alpine works for the shopkeeper Morris Bober in a novel by this man, who used the Beilis blood libel trial as the basis for his novel about Yakov Bok. This author of The Assistant and The Fixer wrote a novel in which the New York Knights sign Roy Hobbs, who uses the bat "Wonderboy". For 10 points, name this Jewish author of The Natural.
In one of this man's novels, Julius Karp's liquor store is burned down by a thug named Ward Minogue.
Bernard Malamud