Philip Roth: References & Edit History

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Type Description Contributor Date
Add new Web site: NPR - Philip Roth: On Writing, Aging and 'Nemesis'. Oct 30, 2026
Anniversary information added. May 18, 2026
Anniversary information added. Mar 15, 2026
Add new Web site: CBS News - Philip Roth on fame, sex and God. Feb 21, 2026
Add new Web site: Fresh Air Archive - Philip Roth. Aug 08, 2025
Add new Web site: CBC - Writers and Company: Philip Roth. Jan 18, 2025
Add new Web site: BBC - Arts and Ideas In Conversation - Philip Roth (1933 - 2018). Dec 05, 2024
Add new Web site: NPR - Philip Roth: 'You Begin Every Book As An Amateur'. Aug 22, 2024
Add new Web site: PBS News - Remembering Philip Roth, prolific American writer and 'ruthlessly honest observer'. Jun 25, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Apr 04, 2024
Add new Web site: Official Site of The Philip Roth Society. Aug 30, 2022
Changed publication date of The Counterlife from 1993 to 1986. Feb 08, 2022
Media added. Sep 01, 2021
Noted that the book The Plot Against America was made into a TV miniseries. Mar 16, 2020
Add new Web site: Famous Authors - Biography of Philip Roth. Nov 12, 2019
Add new Web site: The Writing University - Biography of Philip Roth. Feb 01, 2019
He died on May 22, 2018. May 23, 2018
Noted that he won two National Book Awards, added the novel Sabbath's Theater, and changed "second Zuckerman trilogy" to "American Trilogy series." May 23, 2018
Noted that he had retired from writing. Jan 18, 2018
Noted the release of the film Indignation (2016). Aug 09, 2016
Add new Web site: National Endowment for the Humanities - Biography of Philip Roth. May 26, 2014
Add new Web site: Pennsylvania Center for the Book - Biography of Philip Roth. May 26, 2014
Add new Web site: Amercian Society of Authors and Writers - Philip Roth. May 26, 2014
Added photograph. Mar 06, 2012
He won the Man Booker International Prize in 2011. May 18, 2011
Final editorial review. May 18, 2011
Description of Nemesis (2010) and characterization of later novels added. Oct 12, 2010
Added mention of 2009 novella The Humbling. Nov 10, 2009
Recent novels (Ghost Writer, Indignation) added. Jan 30, 2009
Dates of film adaptations added. Jan 30, 2009
Article revised and updated. Jan 30, 2009
Added new Web site: Fantastic Fiction - Philip Roth.
  • Gaurav Shukla
May 23, 2007
Added new Web site: Philip Roth Society - Biography of Philip Milton Roth.
  • Gaurav Shukla
May 23, 2007
Article revised and updated. Apr 06, 2007
Article revised. Nov 01, 1998
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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