Philip Roth

Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) was an American novelist and short story writer. He received the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award (three times), and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The Library of America has described Roth as “unquestionably the greatest American novelist of the postwar era.” His celebrated works include Portnoy’s Complaint, American Pastoral, The Human Stain, and Everyman.

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