Philip Milton Roth biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Philip Milton Roth

Author Name:

Philip Milton Roth

Born As:

Philip Milton Roth

Other Names:

Born:

19 Mar 1933

Died:





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Novelist                          
Selected Works:

Zuckerman novels:

The Ghost Writer - 1979
Zuckerman Unbound - 1981
The Anatomy Lesson - 1983
The Prague Orgy - 1985

The Counterlife - 1986
American Pastoral - 1997
I Married a Communist - 1998
The Human Stain - 2000
Exit Ghost - 2007

Roth novels:

Deception: A Novel - 1990
Operation Shylock: A Confession - 1993
The Plot Against America - 2004

Kepesh novels:

The Breast - 1972
The Professor of Desire - 1977
The Dying Animal - 2001

Other novels:
Goodbye, Columbus - 1959
Letting Go - 1962
When She Was Good - 1967
Portnoy's Complaint - 1969
Our Gang - 1971
The Great American Novel - 1973
My Life As a Man - 1974
Sabbath's Theater - 1995
Everyman - 2006
Indignation - 2008
The Humbling - 2009

Memoirs:

The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography - 1988
Patrimony: A True Story - 1991

Collections:

Reading Myself and Others - 1976
A Philip Roth Reader - 1980, revised edition 1993
Shop Talk - 2001

Library of America Editions:

Edited by Ross Miller

Novels and Stories 1959-1962 - 2005
Novels 1967-1972 - 2005
Novels 1973-1977 - 2006.
Zuckerman Bound: A Trilogy and Epilogue 1979-1985 - 2007
Novels and Other Narratives 1986-1991 - 2008.

                          
First wife, Margaret Martinson, separated
Second wife, Claire Bloom, divorced.                          
Awards

1960 - National Book Award for Goodbye, Columbus
1986 - National Book Critics Circle Award for The Counterlife
1991 - National Book Critics Circle Award for Patrimony
1994 - PEN/Faulkner Award for Operation Shylock
1995 - National Book Award for Sabbath's Theater
1998 - Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for American Pastoral
1998 - Ambassador Book Award of the English-Speaking Union for I Married a Communist
1998 - National Medal of Arts
2000 - Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (France) for American Pastoral
2001 - PEN/Faulkner Award for The Human Stain
2001 - Gold Medal In Fiction from The American Academy of Arts and Letters
2001 - WH Smith Literary Award for The Human Stain
2002 - National Book Foundation's Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
2002 - Prix Médicis Étranger (France) for The Human Stain
2003 - Honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Harvard University
2005 - Sidewise Award for Alternate History for The Plot Against America
2006 - PEN/Nabokov Award for lifetime achievement
2007 - PEN/Faulkner Award for Everyman
2007 - PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction.                          
David Kepesh and Nathan Zuckerman is a fictional character who has appeared as the narrator or protagonist of many of Philip Roth's works of fiction.