Philip Roth

Philip Roth was born in Newark in 1933 into a Jewish family. He graduated from Bucknell, taught in Chicago, and at twenty-six published a first book that won him the National Book Award and accusations of antisemitism from rabbis. He produced thirty-one books in fifty years, received a second National Book Award in 1995 and the Pulitzer Prize in 1998, taught at Princeton, and announced in 2012 that he was ceasing to write. He died in New York in 2018.

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• NovelPortnoy's ComplaintPhilip Roth · 1969Literature