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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 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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