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Philip Roth

Philip Roth

Author Biography & Works

Philip Milton Roth was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, sexual humor, philosophical and formal blurring of the distinction between reality and fiction, "sensual, ingenious style", and provocative explorations of Jewish and American identity. Roth first gained attention with the 1959 short story collection Goodbye, Columbus, which won the U.S.

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Books by Philip Roth

The Plot Against America

The Plot Against America

Philip Roth is one of the two or three leading American novelists from the second half of the twentieth century, whose work consistently explored the Jewish experience in modern America....

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