Philip Roth
Philip Roth · Arts & Literature
Novelist
1933, Newark, New Jersey, United States — 2018, New York City, United States
United States
Philip Roth is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Novelist
Roth was one of the most acclaimed American novelists of his generation, author of Portnoy's Complaint, American Pastoral (Pulitzer Prize, 1998) and the Zuckerman novels, whose fiction repeatedly probed Jewish-American identity, desire and mortality. Born and raised in the Jewish community of Newark, his Jewish background is central to his work and well documented.
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Source: American Pastoral
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Novelist
Source: American Pastoral
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