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Philip Roth
| Full Name: |
Philip
Milton
Roth |
| Born: |
March 19, 1933
Newark, New Jersey, USA |
| Died: |
May 22, 2018
New York City, USA |
| Occupation: |
Writer |
| Nationality: |
American |
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Biography
Philip Milton Roth was an American novelist. He gained early literary fame with the 1959 collection Goodbye, Columbus (winner of 1960's National Book Award), cemented it with his 1969 bestseller Portnoy's Complaint, and has continued to write critically-acclaimed works, many of which feature his fictional alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman. The Zuckerman novels began with The Ghost Writer in 1979, and include American Pastoral(1997) (winner of the Pulitzer Prize). In May 2011, he won the Man Booker International Prize for lifetime achievement in fiction.
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