About Philip Roth
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.
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Awards & Honors
Franz Kafka Prize
National Book Award
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Sidewise Award for Alternate History
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Guggenheim Fellowship
National Humanities Medal
National Medal of Arts
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International Booker Prize
Princess of Asturias Literary Prize
Prix Médicis étranger
National Book Award for Fiction
Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service
Emerson-Thoreau Medal
Society of American Historians Prize for Historical Fiction
Library of Congress Living Legend
PEN/Nabokov Award
Commander of the Legion of Honour
New Jersey Hall of Fame
Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction
honorary doctorate from Brown University
National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography
