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   How old was Philip Roth when he died?

   • Philip Roth, one of the iconic voices in American letters who credited his debut novella to a conversation he had while a University of Chicago graduate student, died May 22. He was 85 years old.

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   Who was Philip Roth?

   • Philip Roth was born in 1933 in Newark, New Jersey, where many of his books were set. His parents were middle class first-generation Jewish immigrants from Europe. He studied for a masters degree in English literature at the University of Chicago and began writing short stories. Roth's first book appeared in 1959.

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   How did Roth's University of Chicago influence his work?

   • Roth’s time at UChicago influenced his work in other ways as well. Nathan Zuckerman, the protagonist of several Roth novels, is a UChicago alumnus, while Roth described former Dean Wilt as his “greatest supporter.” “I loved the University of Chicago,” he said in 2011 upon winning the Man Booker International Prize.

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   Why did Philip Roth not win a Nobel Prize?

   • Philip Roth began his career as an enfant terrible, whose fourth novel, Portnoy's Complaint, scandalised middle America. Decades later, he was the grand old man of American letters and many - perhaps including Roth himself - could not understand why he had not been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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   Philip Roth, one of the iconic voices in American letters who credited his debut novella to a conversation he had while a University of Chicago graduate student, died May 22. He was 85 years old. Over a career that spanned six decades, Roth, AM’55, received almost every major literary prize, including the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, PEN/Faulkner Award and National Book Critics ...

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   May 23, 2018 · Zuckerman appeared in 10 books in all, including two often numbered among Roth's best. In American Pastoral (1997) Zuckerman narrates the tale of a former high school classmate, Swede Levov, whose ...

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   Philip A. Roth, age 65, of Midlothian passed away November 29, 2021. Beloved husband of Maria Roth. Loving father of Christina (Phillip) Ondera and Catherine Roth. Proud grandfather of Jade Roth, D…