Philip Roth: Quick Facts


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Also Known As Philip Milton Roth
Born March 19, 1933 • Newark • New Jersey
Died May 22, 2018 (aged 85) • New York City • New York
Awards And Honors National Book Award • Pulitzer Prize • Bukhman International Booker Prize (2011) • PEN/Faulkner Award (2007) • PEN/Faulkner Award (2001) • PEN/Faulkner Award (1994)
Notable Works “American Pastoral” • “Everyman” • “Exit Ghost” • “The Ghost Writer” • “Goodbye, Columbus” • “I Married a Communist” • “Indignation” • “Letting Go” • “My Life As a Man” • “Nemesis” • “Operation Shylock” • “Portnoy’s Complaint” • “The Prague Orgy” • “Sabbath’s Theater” • “The Anatomy Lesson” • “The Breast” • “The Counterlife” • “The Dying Animal” • “The Human Stain” • “The Humbling” • “The Plot Against America” • “The Professor of Desire” • “When She Was Good” • “Zuckerman Bound” • “Zuckerman Unbound”

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