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Roth, Philip Milton

(b. 19 March 1933 in Newark, New Jersey), award-winning author of Goodbye, Columbus, Portnoy's Complaint, a series of novels about the fictional character Nathan Zuckerman, and other controversial works of literature that are vehicles for his trademark satire and comic genius.

The son of Herman Roth, an insurance salesman, and Bess (Finkel) Roth, a homemaker, Roth and his older brother grew up in a working-class, first-generation Jewish neighborhood in Newark. An intelligent, observant boy, Roth realized early in his life that his father carried a special burden as an employee of Metropolitan Life: as a Jew, he would never be allowed to rise as high as middle management in the company hierarchy. This notion that American Jews could be set apart and discriminated against resulted in a lifetime of novels, short stories, and essays that touch on what sets American Jews apart from other citizens and how the American dream promised by the dominant culture has affected American Jews.

Roth attended Weequahic High School, which had a predominantly Jewish studen

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Roth, Philip (Milton) 1933-

PERSONAL:

Born March 19, 1933, in Newark, NJ; son of Herman (an insurance manager) and Bess (Finkel) Roth; married Margaret Martinson, February 22, 1959 (died, 1968); married Claire Bloom, April 29, 1990 (divorced, June, 1994). Education: Attended Rutgers University, Newark, 1950-51; Bucknell University, A.B., 1954; University of Chicago, M.A., 1955, additional study, 1956-57.

ADDRESSES:

Agent—c/o Jeffrey Posternak, The Wylie Agency, 250 West 57th St., Suite 2114, New York, NY 10107.

CAREER:

Writer. University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, instructor, 1956-58; visiting lecturer, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1960-62, and State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1967-68; Hunter College, City University of New York, distinguished professor, 1989-92. Writer-in-residence, Princeton University, 1962-64, and University of Pennsylvania, 1965-80. Military service: U.S. Army, 1955-56.

MEMBER:

American Academy of Arts and Letters, Phi Beta Kappa.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Aga Khan Award, Paris Review, 1958; Houghton Mifflin literary fellowship,

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Philip Roth

American novelist (1933–2018)

For other people with similar names, see Phillip Roth.

Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018)^[1] 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 American identity.^[2] He first gained attention with the 1959 short story collection Goodbye, Columbus, which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.^[3]^[4] 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.

Roth was one of the most honored American writers of his generation.^[5] He received the National Book Critics Circle award for The Counterl