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.

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
• 1993 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 the Arts at the White House
• 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for The Human Stain
• 2001 Gold Medal In Fiction from The American Academy of Arts and Letters
• 2002 National Book Foundation's Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
• 2005 Sidewise Award for Alternate History for The Plot Against America