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    Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) [1] 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 ...

  3. May 18, 2024 · Philip Roth (born March 19, 1933, Newark, New Jersey, U.S.—died May 22, 2018, New York, New York) was an American novelist and short-story writer whose works are characterized by an acute ear for dialogue, a concern with Jewish middle-class life, and the painful entanglements of sexual and familial love. In Roth’s later years his works were ...

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  4. Jun 4, 2021 · 113. Philip Roth at his New York City home in 2018. His friends worry that the controversy around his biography, published this year, has affected his legacy. Philip Montgomery for The New...

  5. May 22, 2018 · Philip Roth, the prolific, protean, and often blackly comic novelist who was a pre-eminent figure in 20th-century literature, died on Tuesday night at a hospital in Manhattan. He was...

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  6. Mar 30, 2020 · Learn about the life and works of Philip Roth, one of the most acclaimed authors of the 20th century. Explore his themes of sexuality, Jewish identity, and national issues in novels such as Portnoy's Complaint, American Pastoral, and The Plot Against America.

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  7. Philip Roth Biography. Courtesy of Salem Press, a Division of EBSCO Publishing. Originally published in Critical Insights: Philip Roth, Edited by Aimee Pozorski (2013) Roth, Philip . Mar. 19, 1933- Writer . Philip Roth first achieved prominence in 1959 with the publication of Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories, for which he won the ...

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