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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 ...
May 18, 2024 · Philip Roth, 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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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 85.
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Apr 19, 2021 · The Roth biography contains everything you’d ever want or need to know about Philip Roth, but it doesn’t contain his most crucial aspect: his writing.
Jun 4, 2021 · 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 York...
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.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Philip Roth, the prizewinning novelist and fearless narrator of sex, death, assimilation and fate, from the comic madness of “Portnoy’s Complaint” to the elegiac...
