Who Is Philip Roth

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Philip Roth is America's Greatest Writer

He is the master of the uncomfortable, not afraid to tackle the topics that shape America. He simultaneously addresses difficult topics in serious books--but with a simple enough approach that the books are actually readable.

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Philip Roth at a Glance 

Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933, Newark, New JerseyMerriam-Websters Dictionary of American Writers, 2001, p. 350) is an American novelist. He gained early literary fame with the 1959 collection Goodbye, Columbus (winner of 1960s National Book Award), cemented it with his 1969 bestseller Portnoys Complaint, and has continued to write critically acclaimed works, many of which feature his fictional alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman. The Zuckerman novels began with The Ghost Writer in 1979, and include the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Pastoral'' (1997).

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Awards given to Philip Roth 

Aga Khan Award, Paris Review, 1958
Houghton-Mifflin literary fellowship, 1959
National Institute of Arts and Letters grant, 1959
National Book Award for Fiction for Goodbye, Columbus, 1960
Daroff Award, Jewish Book Council of America for Goodbye, Columbus, 1960
Second prize in the O. Henry Prize Story Contest for "Defender of the Faith," 1960
Guggenheim fellowship, 1960
Ford Foundation grant in playwriting, 1965
Elected to National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1970
American Book Award nomination for The Ghost Writer, 1980
National Books Critics Circle nomination for The Anatomy Lesson, 1983
American Book Award nomination for The Anatomy Lesson, 1984
National Book Critics Circle Award for The Counterlife, 1987
National Arts Club Medal of Honor, 1991
National Book Critics Circle Award for Patrimony, 1992
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for Operation Shylock, 1993
Time magazine's Best American Novel of the year for Operation Shylock, 1994
Jewish Cultural Achievement Award in the Arts, 1993
Karl Capek Prize (Czech Republic), 1994
National Book Award for fiction, Sabbath's Theater, 1995
National Book Critics Circle nomination for American Pastoral, 1997
National Book Award nomination for American Pastoral, 1997
Pulitzer Prize for fiction, American Pastoral, 1997
Ambassador Book Award, English-Speaking Union, for I Married a Communist, 1998
National Medal of Arts, 1998
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for The Human Stain, 2001
Time magazine's America's Best Novelist, 2001
American Academy of Arts and Letters' Gold Metal for Fiction, 2001
Franz Kafka Prize (Czech Republic), 2001
France's Medicis foreign book prize for The Human Stain, 2002
National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, 2002
Sidewise Award for Alternate History for The Plot Against America, 2005
PEN/Nabokov Award, 2006
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for Everyman, 2007
PEN/Bellow Award, 2007

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