Philip Roth
/ˌfɪlɪp ˈrɒθ/
/ˌfɪlɪp ˈrɔːθ/
- (1933-2018) a US writer of novels and short stories, many of them about American Jewish life. His best-known early work is Portnoy's Complaint (1969). The short novel Goodbye Columbus (1959) won a National Book Award and became a successful film (1969). His other novels include My Life as a Man (1974), Zuckerman Bound (1985), Sabbath's Theater (1995), which won a National Book Award, The Plot Against America (2004), and his trilogy of novels about public and private life in post-war America, American Pastoral (1997), which won the Pulitzer Prize, I Married a Communist (1998), and The Human Stain (2000).
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Philip Roth