Philip Roth

Philip Roth is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author of literary fiction.

Philip Roth began writing short stories, movie reviews, and critical pieces shortly after leaving the Army. He published his first book, Goodbye, Columbus, in 1959. Roth's work is almost always semi-autobiographical in nature and serves as a vehicle to explore Judaism, gender relations, aging, health, and American society. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1997 for American Pastoral, a novel in part about the social upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s.

• Portnoy's Complaint (1969)
• The Ghost Writer (1979)
• American Pastoral (1997)
• Sabbath's Theater (1995)

• March 9, 1933: Born Newark, New Jersey

• 1963: Separates from his first wife, Margaret Martinson

• 1968: First wife dies in car accident, effecting Roth deeply

• Late 1980's: Suffers nervous breakdown

• 1990: Marries Claire Bloom

• 1997: Pulitzer Prize for fiction

• 2001: W.H. Smith Literary Award

• 2002: National Book Award

• 2004: Sidewise Award for Alternate History

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• 1969: Goodbye, Columbus

• 1972: Portnoy's Complaint

• 1984: The Ghost Writer

• 2003: The Human Stain

• 2007: Elegy

• 2009: American Pastoral