Philip Roth
American novelist
Born on: March 19, 1933Died on: May 22, 2018
Aged: 85 years 64 days (1022 months)
Gender: Male
Nationality: United states
Birth Sign: Pisces
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, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "sensual, ingenious style" and for its provocative explorations of Jewish and American identity.
He first gained attention with the 1959 short story collection Goodbye, Columbus, which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.
Ten years later, he published the bestseller Portnoy's Complaint. Nathan Zuckerman, Roth's literary alter ego, narrates several of his books.
A fictionalized Roth narrates some of his others, such as the alternate history The Plot Against America.
