Philip Roth

Philip Roth

Known for: Writing
Biography: 1933-03-19
Deathday: 2018-05-22 (85 years old)

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Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "sensual, ingenious style" and for its provocative explorations of American identity. He first gained attention with the 1959 short story collection Goodbye, Columbus, which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Ten years later, he published the bestseller Portnoy's Complaint. Nathan Zuckerman, Roth's literary alter ego, narrates several of his books. A fictionalized Philip Roth narrates some of his others, such as the alternate history The Plot Against America.

Roth was one of the most honored American writers of his generation. He received the National Book Critics Circle award for The Counterlife, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Operation Shylock, The Human Stain, and Everyman, a second National Book Award for Sabbath's Theater, and the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. In 2005, the Library of America began publishing his complete works, making him the second author so anthologized while still living, after Eudora Welty. Harold Bloom named him one of the four greatest American novelists of his day, along with Cormac McCarthy, Thomas Pynchon, and Don DeLillo. In 2001, Roth received the inaugural Franz Kafka Prize in Prague.

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Known For
Writing

Gender
Male

Birthday
1933-03-19

Deathday
2018-05-22 (85 years old)

Birth Name
Philip Milton Roth

Birth Place
Newark, United States of America

Religion
Judaism

Relationships
Claire Bloom (1990-01-01 - 1994-01-01)

Citizenships
United States of America

Residences
Newark · Warren, United States of America

Awards
Princess of Asturias Literary Prize, National Book Award for Fiction, Prix Médicis étranger, Man Booker International Prize, International Booker Prize, National Medal of Arts, National Humanities Medal, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Franz Kafka Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, Sidewise Award for Alternate History, Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service, Emerson-Thoreau Medal, Society of American Historians Prize for Historical Fiction, Library of Congress Living Legend, PEN/Nabokov Award, Commander of the Legion of Honour, New Jersey Hall of Fame, Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, Honorary doctorate from Brown University, National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography


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