Philip Roth

Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933) is a Jewish-American novelist who is best known for his sexually-explicit comedic novel Portnoy's Complaint (1969) and for his late-'90s trilogy comprising the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Pastoral (1997), I Married a Communist (1998), and The Human Stain (2000). Most of his novels contain Jewish characters and address issues of importance to American Jews such as assimilation, Zionism, and anti-Semitism.

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March 19 - 1933 - Jewish-American - Portnoy's Complaint - Pulitzer Prize - American Pastoral - I Married a Communist - The Human Stain - Assimilation - Zionism - Anti-Semitism

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