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.

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)

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• The Counterlife (1986)
• American Pastoral (1997)
• I Married a Communist (1998)
• The Human Stain (2000)

Roth books

• ' (1988)
• ' (1990)
• ' (1991)
• ' (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)

Collections

• Reading Myself and Others (1976)
• A Philip Roth Reader (1980)
• Shop Talk (2001)