Roth, Philip, 1933-2018
Variant namesAuthor. Full name: Philip Milton Roth. Born 1933.
From the description of Philip Roth papers, 1938-2001 (bulk 1960-1999). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70982313
Philip Roth is a popular and critically acclaimed American novelist. His observations on the Jewish experience in America, as depicted in such works as Goodbye, Columbus, and Portnoy's Complaint, show inventiveness and a singular sense of humor. Some observers find his works unnecessarily scatalogical and self-indulgent, others as an honest portrayal of the author's experiences and observations. One of the guiding themes in his work is a search for a personal and cultural identity.
From the description of Philip Roth letters and essays, 1952-1986. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 57659876
Biographical Note
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1933, Mar. 19:
Born, Newark, N.J. -
1950 -1951 :Attended Rutgers University, Newark, N.J. -
1951 -1954 :Completed B.A. in English, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pa. Founding editor and contributor, campus literary magazine Et Cetera -
1954:
Published first story, “The Day It Snowed,” in Chicago Review -
1955:
M.A. in English, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill. -
1955 -1956 :Served in United States army. Received medical discharge -
1956 -1958 :Instructor, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill. -
1959:
Married Margaret Martinson Williams (died 1968) Published Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. Winner of National Book Award and Daroff Award of the Jewish Book Council of America -
1960 -1962 :Visiting lecturer, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa -
1962 -1964 :Writer-in-residence, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. -
1963 -1972 :Annual summer visits to Yaddo Artist's Colony, Sarasota Springs, N.Y. -
1965 -1980 :Adjunct professor of English, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. -
1969:
Published Portnoy's Complaint. New York: Random House -
1973:
Published The Great American Novel. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston -
1974 -1989 :Founder and general editor, Penguin Books series Writers from the Other Europe -
1979:
Published The Ghost Writer. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Initial work in the Zuckerman trilogy followed by Zuckerman Unbound (1981) and The Anatomy Lesson (1983) -
1986:
Published The Counterlife. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Received National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction and National Jewish Book Award for Fiction of the Jewish Book Council -
1990:
Married Claire Bloom (divorced 1994) -
1991:
Published Patrimony: A True Story. New York: Simon and Schuster. Winner of National Book Critics Circle Award -
1993:
Published Operation Shylock: A Confession. New York: Simon and Schuster. Won PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction -
1997:
Published American Pastoral. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. Awarded Pulitzer Prize for fiction -
2000:
Published The Human Stain. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. Received W. H. Smith Literary Award and other honors -
2001:
Received Gold Medal for Fiction, American Academy of Arts and Letters Published The Dying Animal and Shop Talk. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. -
2002:
Awarded Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, National Book Foundation -
2004:
Published The Plot against America. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co.
From the guide to the Philip Roth Papers, 1938-2001, (bulk 1960-1999), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)
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correspondedWith | Aiken, Joan, 1924-2004 | person |
associatedWith | American Review | corporateBody |
correspondedWith | Ames, Elizabeth | person |
correspondedWith | Ames, Elizabeth | person |
correspondedWith | Asher, Aaron | person |
correspondedWith | Atlas, James | person |
associatedWith | Atlas, James. | person |
correspondedWith | Baker, R. S. (Robert Samuel), 1926-2004 | person |
correspondedWith | Bellow, Saul | person |
correspondedWith | Bellow, Saul | person |
correspondedWith | Bloom, Claire, 1931- | person |
associatedWith | Books & Co | corporateBody |
associatedWith | Bradbury, Malcolm, 1932-2000 | person |
correspondedWith | Brookner, Anita | person |
correspondedWith | Brookner, Anita | person |
correspondedWith | Brustein, Robert Sanford, 1927- | person |
correspondedWith | Burack, A. S. (Abraham Saul), 1908- | person |
correspondedWith | Carter, Angela, 1940-1992 | person |
correspondedWith | Cassill, R. V. (Ronald Verlin), 1919-2002 | person |
associatedWith | Cerf, Bennett, 1898-1971. | person |
correspondedWith | Clark, Blair, 1917-2000 | person |
correspondedWith | Conarroe, Joel, 1934- | person |
correspondedWith | Crichton, Robert | person |
correspondedWith | Crichton, Robert | person |
associatedWith | Davis, Hope Hale. | person |
correspondedWith | Dayan, Yaël, 1939- | person |
associatedWith | Delbanco, Nicholas. | person |
associatedWith | Dickey, James, 1923- | person |
correspondedWith | Donadio, Candida, 1929-2001 | person |
correspondedWith | Dunford, Judith | person |
associatedWith | Edgerton, Clyde, 1944- | person |
associatedWith | Engle, Paul, 1908-1991, | person |
associatedWith | Esquire, Inc. | corporateBody |
associatedWith | Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. | corporateBody |
correspondedWith | Feiffer, Jules. | person |
correspondedWith | Feiffer, Jules. | person |
correspondedWith | Fuller, Blair | person |
correspondedWith | Garrett, George P., 1929-2008 | person |
correspondedWith | Geng, Veronica | person |
correspondedWith | Grausman, Philip, 1935- | person |
correspondedWith | Guston, Philip, 1913-1980 | person |
associatedWith | Hamilton, Ian. | person |
correspondedWith | Hanson, Polly | person |
associatedWith | Hardwick, Elizabeth. | person |
associatedWith | Hardwick, Elizabeth, 1916-2007 | person |
associatedWith | Hare, David, 1947- | person |
correspondedWith | Harnack, Curtis, 1927- | person |
associatedWith | Harper's Magazine | corporateBody |
associatedWith | Hawkins, John R. | person |
correspondedWith | Heim, Michael Henry | person |
correspondedWith | Herr, Michael, 1940- | person |
correspondedWith | Hills, L. Rust | person |
correspondedWith | Hoagland, Edward | person |
correspondedWith | Hoagland, Edward | person |
associatedWith | Hollander, John. | person |
correspondedWith | Houghton Mifflin Company. | corporateBody |
correspondedWith | Howe, Irving | person |
correspondedWith | Howe, Irving | person |
correspondedWith | Jacoby, Susan, 1945- | person |
correspondedWith | Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998 | person |
associatedWith | Kennedy, William, 1928- | person |
associatedWith | Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969. | person |
correspondedWith | Kitaj, R. B. | person |
correspondedWith | Klíma, Ivan | person |
correspondedWith | Kundera, Milan | person |
correspondedWith | Kundera, Milan | person |
correspondedWith | Lee, Hermione | person |
correspondedWith | Lee, Hermione | person |
correspondedWith | Lelchuk, Alan | person |
correspondedWith | Lurie, Alison | person |
correspondedWith | Lurie, Alison | person |
associatedWith | Macauley, Robie, | person |
correspondedWith | Malamud, Bernard | person |
correspondedWith | Malamud, Bernard | person |
correspondedWith | Malcolm, Janet | person |
correspondedWith | Malcolm, Janet | person |
correspondedWith | Manea, Norman | person |
correspondedWith | Mangione, Jerre, 1909-1998 | person |
associatedWith | Manning, Robert, 1919- | person |
correspondedWith | Martin, Mildred, 1904-1995 | person |
correspondedWith | Maschler, Tom, 1933- | person |
correspondedWith | Maslow, Jonathan Evan | person |
correspondedWith | Maslow, Jonathan Evan | person |
correspondedWith | Maurer, Charlotte | person |
correspondedWith | Maurer, Robert E. | person |
associatedWith | Meyer, Nicholas, 1945- | person |
associatedWith | Michaelson, Michael G. | person |
correspondedWith | Miles, Jack, 1942- | person |
correspondedWith | Miller, Ross | person |
correspondedWith | Miller, Ross | person |
associatedWith | Mitgang, Herbert | person |
associatedWith | Mitgang, Herbert. | person |
associatedWith | New Jersey Historical Society. | corporateBody |
correspondedWith | New Yorker Magazine, Inc | corporateBody |
correspondedWith | Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- | person |
correspondedWith | O'Brien, Edna | person |
correspondedWith | O'Brien, Edna | person |
correspondedWith | Ozick, Cynthia | person |
correspondedWith | Ozick, Cynthia | person |
associatedWith | Paris Review. | corporateBody |
associatedWith | Perzigian, Jerome | person |
associatedWith | Pick, Kurt-Werner. | person |
correspondedWith | Pinter, Harold, 1930-2008 | person |
correspondedWith | Plante, David | person |
correspondedWith | Plante, David | person |
associatedWith | Poláchkova, Káca. | person |
associatedWith | Pomegranate Press. | corporateBody |
associatedWith | Rappaport, Susan. | person |
correspondedWith | Rogers, Deborah D., 1953- | person |
correspondedWith | Rogers, Thomas, 1927-2007 | person |
associatedWith | Rose, Phyllis, 1942- | person |
correspondedWith | Rostropowicz, Joanna | person |
correspondedWith | Schneider, Herman, 1905-2003 | person |
correspondedWith | Škvorecký, Josef | person |
correspondedWith | Škvorecký, Josef | person |
associatedWith | Solotaroff, Ted, 1928-2008. | person |
correspondedWith | Starbuck, George, 1931- | person |
associatedWith | Steegmuller, Francis, 1906- | person |
correspondedWith | Stein, Howard | person |
correspondedWith | Stein, Howard | person |
correspondedWith | Stern, Richard G., 1928- | person |
correspondedWith | Straus, Roger W. (Roger Williams), 1917-2004 | person |
associatedWith | Styron, William | person |
correspondedWith | Styron, William, 1925-2006 | person |
correspondedWith | Thurman, Judith, 1946- | person |
correspondedWith | Thurman, Judith, 1946- | person |
correspondedWith | Tumin, Melvin M. (Melvin Marvin), 1919-1994 | person |
correspondedWith | Updike, John | person |
associatedWith | Van Doren, Mark, 1894-1972 | person |
associatedWith | Vidal, Gore, 1925- | person |
correspondedWith | Wagman, Fredrica | person |
correspondedWith | Wagman, Fredrica | person |
correspondedWith | Wagoner, David. | person |
correspondedWith | Wheatcroft, John, 1925- | person |
associatedWith | Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972 | person |
associatedWith | Yaddo (Artist's colony) | corporateBody |
associatedWith | Yaddo (Artists' colony) | corporateBody |
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Chicago | IL | US | |
Newark | NJ | US |
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American literature |
Artist colonies |
Artist colonies |
Authors, European |
Jews |
Jews |
Male authors, American |
Middle aged men |
Psychological fiction |
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Person
Birth 1933-03-19
Death 2018-05-22
Americans
English