philip roth

     

Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933, Newark, New Jersey) is an American novelist. He gaine early literary fame with the 1959 collection Goodbye, Columbus (winner of 1960's National Book Award), cemented it with his 1969 bestseller Portnoy's Complaint, and has continued to write critically acclaimed works, many of which feature his fictional alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman. The Zuckerman novels began with The Ghost Writer in 1979, and include the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Pastoral (1997).

Trivia about philip roth

  • 39 years after "Goodbye, Columbus", this author won for his novel "American Pastoral"
  • "The Great American Novel","Zuckerman Bound","Portnoy's Complaint"
  • In addition to "Goodbye, Columbus" & "The Anatomy Lesson", he wrote "The Breast"
  • You shouldn't have as much trouble with your mother as this author's creation Alexander Portnoy
  • He won National Book Awards for "Goodbye, Columbus" & "Sabbath's Theater"
  • This writer won for his novel "The Counterlife" & for the biography "Patrimony", but not for "Portnoy"
  • Nathan Zuckerman,Trick E. Dixon,Alexander Portnoy
  • He's won 2 Nat'l Book Awards: for "Goodbye, Columbus" in 1960 & for "Sabbath's Theater" 35 years later
  • This author created David Alan Kepesh, Nathan Zuckerman & Alexander Portnoy
  • A writer named Nathan Zuckerman is featured in several books by this author
  • His novel "Indignation" follows a student from his father's Newark butcher shop to college in Ohio
  • "Letting Go" was the 1st full-length novel by this author of "Goodbye, Columbus"
  • In 2001 this author won a Pen/Faulkner Award for Best American Work of Fiction for "The Human Stain"
  • "I Married a Communist", "The Human Stain" & "American Pastoral" make up a recent trilogy by this novelist
  • In 1960 for "Goodbye, Columbus" & in 1995 for "Sabbath's Theater"
  • He reviewed films & TV for the New Republic before his first book, "Goodbye, Columbus", was published in 1959

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