| Philip Roth  AKA Philip Milton Roth
Born: 19-Mar-1933
Birthplace: Newark, NJ
Died: 22-May-2018
Location of death: Manhattan, NY
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Bard College Cemetery, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Novelist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Portnoy's Complaint Military service: US Army (1955-56) Father: Herman Roth (insurance manager, d.)
Mother: Bess Finkel
Brother: Sanford ("Sandy", d. 2009)
Wife: Margaret Martinson Williams (m. 1959, separated 1963, d. 1968)
Wife: Claire Bloom (actress, m. 19-Apr-1990, div. 1994)
High School: Weequahic High School, Newark, NJ (1950)
University: Rutgers University
University: BA English, Bucknell University (1954)
University: MA English Literature, University of Chicago (1955)
Professor: University of Iowa (1960)
Professor: Princeton University (1962)
Professor: SUNY Stony Brook (1964)
Professor: University of Pennsylvania (1969)
The New Republic
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
John Kerry for President
National Book Award for Fiction 1960 for Goodbye, Columbus
National Book Critics Circle Award 1987 for The Counterlife
National Book Critics Circle Award 1992 for Patrimony
PEN/Faulkner Award 1994 for Operation Shylock
National Book Award for Fiction 1995 for Sabbath's Theatre
National Medal of Arts 1998
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1998 for American Pastoral
Library of Congress Living Legend 2000
PEN/Faulkner Award 2001 for The Human Stain
Prix Médicis étranger 2002 for The Human Stain
PEN/Faulkner Award 2007 for Everyman
Sigma Alpha Mu Fraternity
Phi Beta Kappa Society
Nervous Breakdown
Austrian Ancestry
Hungarian Ancestry
Jewish Ancestry
Author of books:
Goodbye, Columbus (1959, short stories)
Letting Go (1962, novel)
When She Was Good (1967, novel)
Portnoy's Complaint (1969, novel)
Our Gang (1971, novel)
The Breast (1972, novella)
The Great American Novel (1973, novel)
My Life as a Man (1974, novel)
The Professor of Desire (1977, novel)
The Ghost Writer (1979, novel)
Zuckerman Unbound (1981, novel)
The Anatomy Lesson (1983, novel)
Zuckerman Bound (1985, collection)
The Prague Orgy (1985, novella)
Counterlife (1986, novel)
The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography (1988, memoir)
Deception (1990, novel)
Patrimony: A True Story (1991, memoir)
Operation Shylock (1993, novel)
Sabbath's Theater (1995, novel)
American Pastoral (1997, novel)
I Married a Communist (1998, novel)
The Human Stain (2000, novel)
The Dying Animal (2001, novel)
The Plot Against America (2004, novel)
Everyman (2006, novel)
Exit Ghost (2007, novel)
Indignation (2008, novel)
The Humbling (2009, novel)
Nemesis (2010, novel)
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