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1. www.newyorker.com › remembering-philip-rothRemembering Philip Roth - The New Yorker

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   May 23, 2018 · The American literary icon Philip Roth, who died on Tuesday night, at the age of eighty-five. Photograph by Inge Morath / Magnum. Our writers and contributors reflect on the novelist’s life...

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3. www.bbc.com › news › entertainment-arts-30537267Obituary: Philip Roth, the author who scandalised ... - BBC

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   May 23, 2018 · Philip Roth began his career as an enfant terrible, whose fourth novel, Portnoy's Complaint, scandalised middle America.

4. apnews.com › general-news-arts-and-entertainmentPhilip Roth, fearless and celebrated author, dies at 85

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   May 23, 2018 · NEW YORK (AP) — Philip Roth, the prize-winning novelist and fearless narrator of sex, death, assimilation and fate, from the comic madness of “Portnoy’s Complaint” to the elegiac lyricism of “American Pastoral,” died Tuesday night at age 85.

5. www.nytimes.com › obituaries › philip-roth-deadPhilip Roth, Towering Novelist Who Explored Lust, Jewish Life ...

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   May 22, 2018 · His more than 30 novels, from “Goodbye, Columbus” to “Portnoy’s Complaint” to “American Pastoral,” have given us an indelible picture of who we were — “I’m going with a girl, a ...

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6. www.cnn.com › 2018/05/23 › usPhilip Roth, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, dies at 85 | CNN

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   May 23, 2018 · Philip Roth,a fearless novelist who wrote about Jewish life and male sexual identity, died Tuesday night at a hospital in New York. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author was 85. Roth died of...

7. www.irishtimes.com › culture › booksPhilip Roth: Prolific writer who explored life with simmering ...

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   May 23, 2018 · Philip Roth, who died on Tuesday at the age of 85, was a prolific, protean and often blackly comic novelist who was a pre-eminent figure in 20th century literature. The cause was congestive...

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   How old was Philip Roth when he died?

   • The American literary icon Philip Roth, who died on Tuesday night, at the age of eighty-five. Photograph by Inge Morath / Magnum Our writers and contributors reflect on the novelist’s life and writing.

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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.

   Obituary: Philip Roth, the author who scandalised middle America

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   Who is Philip Milton Roth?

   • 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 manager for Metropolitan Life who felt that his career had been thwarted by the gentile executives who ran the company. Mr.

   Philip Roth, Towering Novelist Who Explored Lust, Jewish Life and

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   Where did Philip Roth go to college?

   • Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey, on March 19, 1933. He briefly attended the Newark branch of Rutgers University before transferring to Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, to discover ‘the rest of America,’ according to the Philip Roth Society. He earned his master’s degree from the University of Chicago in 1955.

   Philip Roth, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, dies at 85 | CNN

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   Why did Philip Roth win the Pulitzer Prize?

   • Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize two decades ago for his novel "American Pastoral"". The Pulitzer committee praised his work, stating, “From the beginning of his long and celebrated career, Philip Roth’s fiction has often explored the human need to demolish, to challenge, to oppose, to pull apart.”

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   Who were Philip Roth & Saul Bellow & John Updike?

   • Philip Roth in January. Mr. Roth, Saul Bellow and John Updike formed the triumvirate that towered over American letters in the second half of the 20th century. Philip Montgomery for The New York Times

   Philip Roth, Towering Novelist Who Explored Lust, Jewish Life and

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9. www.legacy.com › news › celebrity-deathsPhilip Roth dies 2018 at age 85 - Obituary - Legacy.com

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   May 23, 2018 · Philip Roth, the prize-winning novelist and fearless narrator of sex, death, assimilation and fate, from the comic madness of “Portnoy’s Complaint” to the elegiac lyricism of “American...