Malamud Named Visiting Professor; English Dept. Will Lose 12 Members

Bernard Malamud, noted novelist and a member of the language and literature division of Bennington College has been appointed visiting professor for next year, Dean Ford announced yesterday.

Malamud will teach a Freshman seminar; it is not yet known whether he will take on any other academic commitments.

Since 1952, Malamud has write five books. His most recent novel, Idiots First, was first published in 1963. Two years before he wrote A New Life, a story about a New Yorker teaching in the West. In 1958, Malamud's Magic Barrel, a book of short stories about Jews searching for a lost past, won the National Book Award. The Natural, a book about a baseball player, appeared in 1952, and was followed in 1957 by The Assistant, a novel about a shoemaker.