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maven edited the summary of Philip Roth Thursday, March 28, 2013.
Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933, Newark, New Jersey) is 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 the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Pastoral (1997)
Bibliography
Zuckerman novels
* The Ghost Writer (1979)
* Zuckerman Unbound (1981)
* The Anatomy Lesson (1983)
* The Prague Orgy (1985)
(The above four books are collected as Zuckerman Bound)
* The Counterlife (1986)
* American Pastoral (1997)
* I Married a Communist (1998)
* The Human Stain (2000)
* Exit Ghost (2007)
Roth novels
* Deception: A Novel (1990)
* Operation Shylock: A Confession (1993)
* The Plot Against America (2004)
Kepesh novels
* The Breast (1972)
* The Professor of Desire (1977)
* The Dying Animal (2001)
Other novels
* Goodbye, Columbus (1959)
* Letting Go (1962)
* When She Was Good (1967)
* Portnoy's Complaint (1969)
* Our Gang (1971)
* The Great American Novel (1973)
* My Life As a Man (1974)
* Sabbath's Theater (1995)
* Everyman (2006)
* Indignation (2008)
Memoirs
* The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography (1988)
* Patrimony: A True Story (1991)
Collections
* Reading Myself and Others (1976)
* A Philip Roth Reader (1980, revised edition 1993)
* Shop Talk (2001)
Awards
* 1960 National Book Award for Goodbye, Columbus
* 1986 National Book Critics Circle Award for The Counterlife
* 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award for Patrimony
* 1994 PEN/Faulkner Award for Operation Shylock
* 1995 National Book Award for Sabbath's Theater
* 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for American Pastoral
* 1998 Ambassador Book Award of the English-Speaking Union for I Married a Communist
* 1998 National Medal of Arts <1>
* 2000 Prix du Meilleur livre étranger (France) for American Pastoral
* 2001 PEN/Faulkner Award for The Human Stain
* 2001 Gold Medal In Fiction from The American Academy of Arts and Letters
* 2001 WH Smith Literary Award for The Human Stain
* 2002 National Book Foundation's Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
* 2002 Prix Médicis étranger (France) for The Human Stain
* 2003 Honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Harvard University
* 2005 Sidewise Award for Alternate History for The Plot Against America
* 2006 PEN/Nabokov Award for lifetime achievement
* 2007 PEN/Faulkner Award for Everyman
* 2007 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction
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eisms edited the summary of Philip Roth Saturday, April 26, 2008.
- Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933, Newark, New Jersey) is 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 the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Pastoral (1997)
Bibliography
Zuckerman novels
* The Ghost Writer (1979)
* Zuckerman Unbound (1981)
* The Anatomy Lesson (1983)
* The Prague Orgy (1985)
(The above four books are collected as Zuckerman Bound)
* The Counterlife (1986)
* American Pastoral (1997)
* I Married a Communist (1998)
* The Human Stain (2000)
* Exit Ghost (2007)
Roth novels
* Deception: A Novel (1990)
* Operation Shylock: A Confession (1993)
* The Plot Against America (2004)
Kepesh novels
* The Breast (1972)
* The Professor of Desire (1977)
* The Dying Animal (2001)
Other novels
* Goodbye, Columbus (1959)
* Letting Go (1962)
* When She Was Good (1967)
* Portnoy's Complaint (1969)
* Our Gang (1971)
* The Great American Novel (1973)
* My Life As a Man (1974)
* Sabbath's Theater (1995)
* Everyman (2006)
* Indignation (2008)
Memoirs
* The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography (1988)
* Patrimony: A True Story (1991)
Collections
* Reading Myself and Others (1976)
* A Philip Roth Reader (1980, revised edition 1993)
* Shop Talk (2001)
Awards
* 1960 National Book Award for Goodbye, Columbus
* 1986 National Book Critics Circle Award for The Counterlife
* 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award for Patrimony
* 1994 PEN/Faulkner Award for Operation Shylock
* 1995 National Book Award for Sabbath's Theater
* 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for American Pastoral
* 1998 Ambassador Book Award of the English-Speaking Union for I Married a Communist
* 1998 National Medal of Arts <1>
* 2000 Prix du Meilleur livre étranger (France) for American Pastoral
* 2001 PEN/Faulkner Award for The Human Stain
* 2001 Gold Medal In Fiction from The American Academy of Arts and Letters
* 2001 WH Smith Literary Award for The Human Stain
* 2002 National Book Foundation's Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
* 2002 Prix Médicis étranger (France) for The Human Stain
* 2003 Honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Harvard University
* 2005 Sidewise Award for Alternate History for The Plot Against America
* 2006 PEN/Nabokov Award for lifetime achievement
* 2007 PEN/Faulkner Award for Everyman
* 2007 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction
- Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933, Newark, New Jersey) is 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 the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Pastoral (1997)
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eisms edited the summary of Philip Roth Saturday, April 26, 2008.
- Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933, Newark, New Jersey) is 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 the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Pastoral (1997)
- Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933, Newark, New Jersey) is 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 the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Pastoral (1997)
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eisms edited the summary of Philip Roth Saturday, April 26, 2008.
- Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933, Newark, New Jersey) is 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 the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Pastoral (1997)
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