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    Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey —is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "sensual, ingenious ...

  2. May 18, 2024 · Philip Roth, American novelist and short-story writer whose works are characterized by an acute ear for dialogue, a concern with Jewish middle-class life, and the painful entanglements of sexual and familial love.

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  3. May 22, 2018 · Philip Roth, the prolific, protean, and often blackly comic novelist who was a pre-eminent figure in 20th-century literature, died on Tuesday night at a hospital in Manhattan. He was 85.

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  4. Apr 19, 2021 · Philip Roth was born in 1933 in Newark. He published 31 books, beginning in 1959 with “Goodbye, Columbus.”. He died in Manhattan in 2018, at the age of 85.

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    • March 19, 1933
    • American Pastoral.
    • Portnoy’s Complaint.
    • The Plot Against America.
    • The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)
  5. Roth was a fearless and provocative writer who explored sex, death, assimilation and fate in more than 25 books. He won multiple awards, but also faced criticism and controversy for his portrayals of Jews and women.

  6. May 23, 2018 · One of the great American authors, Philip Roth, has died aged 85. The Pulitzer, National Book Award and Man Booker International Prize-winning novelist's work drew its inspiration from Jewish...

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