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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.

Further reading

  • Derek Parker Royal, Philip Roth : New Perspectives on an American Author, 2005 (ISBN 0275983633)
  • Debra B. Shostak, Philip Roth-Countertexts, Counterlives, 2004 (ISBN 1570035423)