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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 ...

  2. Jun 25, 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.

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  3. May 22, 2018 · Philip Milton Roth was born in Newark on March 19, 1933, the younger of two sons. (His brother, Sanford, a commercial artist known as Sandy, died in 2009.) His father, Herman, was an insurance ...

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  4. Apr 19, 2021 · Philip Roth was born in 1933 in Newark. He published 31 books, beginning in 1959 with “Goodbye, Columbus.” He died in Manhattan in 2018, at the age of 85.

  5. May 22, 2018 · Philip Roth, the American literary icon whose novel “American Pastoral” won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, in 1998, has died, at the age of eighty-five, according to friends close to him.

  6. May 22, 2018 · Philip Milton Roth 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.

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  8. Novelist Philip Roth sits inside a screened tent at his home on September 5, 2005, in Warren, Connecticut (AP Photo/Douglas Healey) NEW YORK (AP) — Philip Roth, the prizewinning novelist and ...

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