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    Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) [1] 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. Jun 25, 2024 · Philip Roth (born March 19, 1933, Newark, New Jersey, U.S.—died May 22, 2018, New York, New York) was an 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. In Roth’s later years his works were informed by an increasingly naked preoccupation ...

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  3. 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.

  4. May 22, 2018 · Philip Milton Roth was born in Newark on March 19, 1933, the younger of two sons. (His brother, Sanford, a commercial artist known as Sandy, died in 2009.) His father, Herman, was an insurance ...

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    • Charles McGrath
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    • May 22, 2018
    • March 19, 1933
    • American Pastoral.
    • Portnoy’s Complaint.
    • The Plot Against America.
    • The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)
  5. May 23, 2018 · 23 May 2018. AFP. Philip Roth was presented with the National Humanities Medal by then President Barack Obama in 2011. One of the great American authors, Philip Roth, has died aged 85. The ...

  6. 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.

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