Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933, Newark, New Jersey^[1]) is a famous American novelist. He gained early literary fame for the 1959 collection Goodbye, Columbus; grabbed headlines with his 1969 bestseller Portnoy's Complaint and has continued to write noted literary works, many of which feature his fictional alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman. The Zuckerman novels started with The Ghost Writer in 1979, and include the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Pastoral (1997). is the 78th day of the year (79th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nickname: Map of Newark in Essex County Coordinates: , Country State County Essex Founded/Incorporated 1666/1836 Government  - Mayor Cory Booker, term of office 2006–2010 Area [1]  - Total 26. ... This article is about work. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... In English usage, nationality is the legal relationship between a person and a country. ... A literary genre is one of the divisions of literature into genres according to particular criteria such as literary technique, tone, or content. ... Literary fiction is a somewhat uneasy term that has come into common usage since around 1970, principally to distinguish serious fiction from the many types of genre fiction and popular fiction. ... Goodbye, Columbus (1959) is the title of the first book published by the American novelist Philip Roth, a collection of six stories. ... For other uses of this name, see Henry James (disambiguation). ... Kafka redirects here. ... Saul Bellow, born Solomon Bellows, (Lachine, Quebec, Canada, June 10, 1915 – April 5, 2005 in Brookline, Massachusetts) was an acclaimed Canadian-born American writer. ... Seline redirects here. ... Henry Miller photo taken by Carl Van Vechten, 1940 Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980) was an American writer and, to a lesser extent, painter. ... Annelies Marie Anne Frank ( ) (June 12, 1929 – early March, 1945) was a European Jewish girl (born in Germany, stateless since 1941, but she claimed to be Dutch as she grew up in the Netherlands) who wrote a diary while in hiding with her family and four friends in Amsterdam during... is the 78th day of the year (79th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nickname: Map of Newark in Essex County Coordinates: , Country State County Essex Founded/Incorporated 1666/1836 Government  - Mayor Cory Booker, term of office 2006–2010 Area [1]  - Total 26. ... Goodbye, Columbus (1959) is the title of the first book published by the American novelist Philip Roth, a collection of six stories. ... Portnoys Complaint book cover Portnoys Complaint (1969) is American writer Philip Roths fourth and, to date, still most popular novel, with many of its characteristics (ribald, comedic prose; themes of sexual desire and sexual frustration; a self-conscious literariness) having gone on to become Roth trademarks. ... Alter Ego has multiple meanings: Alter Ego is a game for the Commodore 64 computer. ... Nathan Zuckerman is a fictional character who has appeared as the narrator or protagonist of (and often functions as an alter ego in) many of Philip Roths dozen or so works of fiction published since the late 1970s. ... The Ghost Writer (1979, ISBN 0679748989) is a novel by Philip Roth. ... The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction has been awarded since 1948 for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life. ... American Pastoral is a Philip Roth novel concerning Seymour Swede Levov, an all-around good guy whose life is ruined by the indigenous American berzerk. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 and was included in All-TIME 100 Greatest Novels. ...

Life and career

Roth grew up in the Weequahic neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey, as the second child of first-generation American parents, Jews of Galician descent, who graduated from Newark's Weequahic High School in 1950.^[2] Roth went on to attend Bucknell University, where he earned a degree in English. He then pursued graduate studies at the University of Chicago, where he received an M.A. in English literature and then worked briefly as an instructor in the university's writing program. Roth went on to teach creative writing at the University of Iowa and Princeton University. He continued his teaching career at the University of Pennsylvania where he taught comparative literature before retiring from teaching in 1992. Weequahic (pronounced WEEK-wake or wee-KWAY-ic) is a neighborhood in Newark, New Jerseys south ward. ... Nickname: Map of Newark in Essex County Coordinates: , Country State County Essex Founded/Incorporated 1666/1836 Government  - Mayor Cory Booker, term of office 2006–2010 Area [1]  - Total 26. ... For other uses, see Galicia. ... Weequahic High School is a public high school in Newark in Essex County, New Jersey. ... Bucknell University is a private university located along the Susquehanna River in the rolling countryside of Central Pennsylvania in the town of Lewisburg, 60 miles (97 km) north of Harrisburg. ... For other uses, see University of Chicago (disambiguation). ... A Master of Arts is a postgraduate academic masters degree awarded by universities in North America and the United Kingdom (excluding the ancient universities of Scotland and Oxbridge. ... The term English literature refers to literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; Joseph Conrad was Polish, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, Salman Rushdie is Indian, V.S... The University of Iowa, also commonly called Iowa or locally UI, is a major coeducational research university located on a 1,900 acre (8 km²) campus in Iowa City, Iowa, US, on the banks of the Iowa River in East Central Iowa. ... Princeton University is a private coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. ... This article is about the private Ivy League university in Philadelphia. ...

During his Chicago stay, Roth met the novelist Saul Bellow, as well as Margaret Martinson, who eventually became his first wife. Their separation in 1963, along with Martinson's death in a car crash in 1968, left a lasting mark on Roth's literary output. Specifically, Martinson was the inspiration for female characters in several of Roth's novels, including Maureen Tarnopol in My Life As a Man, and, most likely, Mary Jane Reed (aka "The Monkey") in Portnoy's Complaint. Flag Seal Nickname: The Windy City Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location Location in Chicagoland and northern Illinois Coordinates , Government Country State Counties United States Illinois Cook, DuPage Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 606. ... Saul Bellow, born Solomon Bellows, (Lachine, Quebec, Canada, June 10, 1915 – April 5, 2005 in Brookline, Massachusetts) was an acclaimed Canadian-born American writer. ... My Life as a Man (1974) is American writer Philip Roths seventh novel. ... Portnoys Complaint book cover Portnoys Complaint (1969) is American writer Philip Roths fourth and, to date, still most popular novel, with many of its characteristics (ribald, comedic prose; themes of sexual desire and sexual frustration; a self-conscious literariness) having gone on to become Roth trademarks. ...

Between the end of his studies and the publication of his first book in 1959, Roth served two years in the United States Army and then wrote short fiction and criticism for various magazines, including movie reviews for The New Republic. His first book, Goodbye, Columbus, a novella and five short stories, won the prestigious National Book Award in 1960, and afterward he published two novels, Letting Go and When She Was Good. However, it was not until the publication of his third novel, Portnoy's Complaint, in 1969 that Roth enjoyed widespread commercial and critical success. The United States Army is the largest and oldest branch of the armed forces of the United States. ... For other uses, see New Republic. ... A novella is a narrative work of prose fiction somewhat longer than a short story but shorter than a novel. ... This article is in need of attention. ... The National Book Awards is one of the most preeminent literary prizes in the United States. ... Letting Go is the first full-length novel written by Philip Roth (1961) and is set in the 1950s. ... When She Was Good (1967) is Philip Roths only novel starring a woman, Lucy Nelson. ...

During the 1970s Roth experimented in various modes, from the political satire Our Gang to the Kafkaesque fantasy The Breast. By the end of the decade Roth had created his Nathan Zuckerman alter ego. In a series of highly self-referential novels and novellas that followed between 1979-1986, Zuckerman appeared as either the main character or as an interlocutor. Our Gang (1971) is Philip Roths fifth novel. ... Kafka redirects here. ... The Breast (1972) is a novel by Philip Roth, in which the main character, David Kepesh, becomes a 155-pound breast. ...

In Sabbath's Theater (1995), Roth presented his most lecherous protagonist yet with Mickey Sabbath, a disgraced former puppeteer. In complete contrast, the first volume of Roth's second Zuckerman trilogy, 1997's American Pastoral, focuses on the life of virtuous Newark athletics star Swede Levov and the tragedy that befalls him when his teenage daughter transforms into a domestic terrorist during the late 1960s. I Married a Communist (1998) focuses on the McCarthy era. The Human Stain examines identity politics in 1990s America. The Dying Animal (2001) is a short novel about eros and death that revisits literary professor David Kepesh, protagonist of two 1970s orks, The Breast and The Professor of Desire. Sabbaths Theater (1995, ISBN 0679772596) is a novel by Philip Roth about the exploits of 64-year-old Mickey Sabbath. ... American Pastoral is a Philip Roth novel concerning Seymour Swede Levov, an all-around good guy whose life is ruined by the indigenous American berzerk. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 and was included in All-TIME 100 Greatest Novels. ... This article is becoming very long. ... I Married a Communist is a Philip Roth novel concerning the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, known as Iron Rinn. ... Joseph McCarthy This article is about the American politician. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Identity politics is the political activity of various social movements for self-determination. ... The cover of The Dying Animal featuring the painting Le grand nu by Amedeo Modigliani The Dying Animal (2001) is a short novel by the US writer Philip Roth (born 1933). ... Look up eros, Eros, EROS in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Professor of Desire is a 1977 novel by Philip Roth (* 1933). ...

Events in Roth's personal life have occasionally been the subject of media scrutiny. According to his pseudo-confessional novel Operation Shylock (1993), Roth suffered a nervous breakdown in the late 1980s. In 1990, he married his long-time companion, English actress Claire Bloom. In 1994 they separated, and in 1996 Bloom published a memoir, Leaving a Doll's House, which described the couple's marriage in detail. Much of it was unflattering to Roth. Certain aspects of I Married a Communist have been regarded by critics as veiled rebuttals to accusation in Bloom's memoir. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Claire Bloom (born Patricia Claire Blume on February 15, 1931) is a British film and stage actress. ... I Married a Communist is a Philip Roth novel concerning the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, known as Iron Rinn. ...

Roth's 182-page novel Everyman, a meditation on illness, desire, and death, was published in May 2006. Everyman (ISBN 061873516X) is a novella by Philip Roth, published by Houghton Mifflin in April 2006. ...

Roth's latest book, Exit Ghost, features his alter ego Nathan Zuckerman and was released in October, 2007. According to the book's publisher, it will be the last Zuckerman novel ^[3]. Exit Ghost is the title of Philip Roths upcoming novel. ...

Influences and themes

Much of Roth's fiction revolves around (semi-)autobiographical themes and plays literary games revolving around the perils of trying to establish connections between the author Philip Roth and the fictional lives and voices of Roth-like narrators and protagonists such as David Kepesh and Nathan Zuckerman or even the character "Philip Roth", of which there are two in Operation Shylock. Nathan Zuckerman is a fictional character who has appeared as the narrator or protagonist of (and often functions as an alter ego in) many of Philip Roths dozen or so works of fiction published since the late 1970s. ... Operation Shylock cover Operation Shylock is novelist Philip Roths 19th book and was published in 1993. ...

In Roth's fiction, the question of authorship is intertwined with the theme of the idealistic, secular Jewish-American son who attempts to distance himself from Jewish costumes and traditions, and from what he perceives as the times suffocating influence of parents, rabbis and other community leaders. Jewish sons such as most infamously Alexander Portnoy and later Nathan Zuckerman rebel by denouncing Judaism, while at the same time remaining attached to a sense of Jewish identity. Roth's fiction has been described by critics as pervaded by "a kind of alienation that is enlivened and exacerbated by what binds it."^{[citation needed]} Roth's first work, Goodbye, Columbus, had been severely criticized by rabbis and readers as crude and self-hating.^{[citation needed]} In response, Roth explained in his 1963 essay "Writing About Jews" (collected in Reading Myself and Others) that he wanted to explore the conflict between the call to Jewish solidarity and his desire to be free to question the values and morals of middle-class Jewish-Americans uncertain of their identities in an era of cultural assimilation and upward social mobility: "The cry 'Watch out for the goyim!' at times seems more the expression of an unconscious wish than of a warning: Oh that they were out there, so that we could be together here! A rumor of persecution, a taste of exile, might even bring with it the old world of feelings and habits — something to replace the new world of social accessibility and moral indifference, the world which tempts all our promiscuous instincts, and where one cannot always figure out what a Jew is that a Christian is not."^[4] Nathan Zuckerman is a fictional character who has appeared as the narrator or protagonist of (and often functions as an alter ego in) many of Philip Roths dozen or so works of fiction published since the late 1970s. ...

In Roth's fiction, the exploration of "promiscuous instincts" within the context of Jewish-American lives, mainly from a male viewpoint plays an important role. Such promiscuity entails not only sexual promiscuity but also more generally a transgression of Jewish-American cultural values and norms, such as observance of the dietary laws, respect for the conventions of Judaism, and marrying a Jewish spouse. Through transgressions such as ignoring dietary laws, ridiculing Judaism, dating "shiksas" and engaging in "immoral" sexual activities, Roth's characters achieve a sense of liberation. But the resulting sense of freedom in Roth's fiction also results in feelings of alienation and emptiness, particularly in the context of the rapid cultural changes in the US that have taken place during Roth's lifetime. In the words of critic Hermione Lee: "Philip Roth's fiction strains to shed the burden of Jewish traditions and proscriptions. ... The liberated Jewish consciousness, let loose into the disintegration of the American Dream, finds itself deracinated and homeless. American society and politics, by the late sixties, are a grotesque travesty of what Jewish immigrants had travelled towards: liberty, peace, security, a decent liberal democracy."^[5] See Shiksha (NGO) for the Indian educational organization. ...

Roth's fiction has been controversial because it has criticized and parodied concepts such as ethical Jewhood, the belief that Jews are a chosen people and the ideology of Zionism.^{[citation needed]}

While Roth's fiction has strong autobiographical influences, it has also incorporated social commentary and political satire, most obviously in Our Gang and Operation Shylock. Since the 1990s, Roth's fiction has often combined autobiographical elements with retrospective dramatizations of postwar American life. Operation Shylock cover Operation Shylock is novelist Philip Roths 19th book and was published in 1993. ...

Roth has described American Pastoral and the two following novels as a loosely connected "American trilogy". All these novels deal with aspects of the postwar era against the backdrop of the nostalgically remembered Jewish-American childhood of Nathan Zuckerman, in which the war years feature prominently.

In much of Roth's fiction, the 1940s, comprising Roth's and Zuckerman's childhood, feature a high-point of American idealism and social cohesion. A more satirical treatment of the patriotism and idealism of the war years is evident in more comic novels such as Portnoy's Complaint and Sabbath's Theater. In The Plot Against America, the alternate history of the war years dramatizes the actual prevalence of anti-Semitism and racism in America during the war years, despite the promotion of increasingly influential anti-racist ideals in wartime. Nonetheless, the 1940s, and the New Deal era that preceded it, are portrayed in much of Roth's recent fiction as a heroic phase in American history. A sense of frustration with social and political developments in the US since the 1940s is palpable in the American trilogy and Exit Ghost, but had already been present on much earlier works which contained political and social satire, such as Our Gang and The Great American Novel. Writing about the latter novel, Hermione Lee points to the sense disillusionment with "the American Dream" in Roth's fiction: "The mythic words on which Roth's generation was brought up — winning, patriotism, gamesmanship — are desanctified; greed, fear, racism and political ambition are disclosed as the motive forces behind the 'all-American ideals'."^[6] The Plot Against America: A Novel (ISBN 0-618-50928-3) is a novel by Philip Roth published in 2004. ... Alternative history or alternate history can be: A History told from an alternative viewpoint, rather than from the view of imperialist, conqueror, or explorer. ... The New Deal was the title President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave to the series of programs he initiated between 1933 and 1938 with the goal of providing relief, recovery, and reform (3 Rs) to the people and economy of the United States during the Great Depression. ... Exit Ghost is the title of Philip Roths upcoming novel. ...

Awards and honors

Philip Roth is arguably the most celebrated American writer of his era. Two of his works of fiction have won the National Book Award; two others were finalists. Two have won National Book Critics Circle awards; again, another two were finalists. He has also won three PEN/Faulkner Awards (Operation Shylock, The Human Stain, and Everyman) and a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his 1997 novel, American Pastoral. In 2001, The Human Stain was awarded the United Kingdom's WH Smith Literary Award for the best book of the year. In 2002, he was awarded the National Book Foundation's Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Literary critic Harold Bloom has named him as one of the four major American novelists still at work, along with Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, and Cormac McCarthy.^[7] His 2004 novel The Plot Against America won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History in 2005 as well as the Society of American Historians’ prize. Roth was also awarded the United Kingdom's W.H. Smith Award for the best book of the year, an award Roth has received twice.^[8] He was honored in his hometown in October 2005 when then-Mayor Sharpe James presided over the unveiling of a street sign in Roth's name on the corner of Summit and Keer Avenues, where Roth lived for much of his childhood, a setting immortalized in The Plot Against America. A plaque on the house where the Roths lived was also unveiled. In May 2006, he was given the PEN/Nabokov Award, and in 2007 he was awarded the PEN/Faulkner award for Everyman, making him the award's only three-time winner. In April 2007, he was chosen as the recipient of the first PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction. The National Book Awards is one of the most preeminent literary prizes in the United States. ... The National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) is an American association of approximately seven hundred book reviewers. ... The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is awarded annually by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation to an American author. ... The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition. ... The WH Smith Literary Award is an award founded in 1959 by British high street retailer WH Smith. ... Harold Bloom (born July 11, 1930) is an American professor and prominent literary and cultural critic. ... Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. ... Don DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American author best known for his novels, which paint detailed portraits of American life in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. ... For the musician, see Cormac McCarthy (musician). ... The Plot Against America: A Novel (ISBN 0-618-50928-3) is a novel by Philip Roth published in 2004. ... The Sidewise Award for Alternate history was established in 1995 to recognize the best alternate history stories and novels of the year. ...

The May 21, 2006 issue of The New York Times Book Review ^[9] announced the results of a letter that was sent to what the publication described as "a couple of hundred prominent writers, critics, editors and other literary sages, asking them to please identify 'the single best work of American fiction published in the last 25 years.'" Of the 22 books cited, six of Roth's novels were selected: American Pastoral, The Counterlife, Operation Shylock, Sabbath's Theater, The Human Stain, and The Plot Against America. The accompanying essay, written by critic A.O. Scott, stated: "If we had asked for the single best writer of fiction of the past 25 years, [Roth] would have won." ^[10] is the 141st day of the year (142nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A.O. Scott (born July 10, 1966) is a film critic for The New York Times newspaper. ...

Bibliography

Zuckerman novels

• The Ghost Writer (1979)
• Zuckerman Unbound (1981)
• The Anatomy Lesson (1983)
• The Prague Orgy (1985)

(The above four books are collected as Zuckerman Bound) The Ghost Writer (1979, ISBN 0679748989) is a novel by Philip Roth. ... Zuckerman Unbound is a 1981 novel by the American author Philip Roth. ... The Anatomy Lesson is a 1983 novel by the American author Philip Roth. ... The Prague Orgy (1985) is a novella by Philip Roth. ... Zuckerman Bound is a trilogy of novels by Philip Roth which was completed in 1985. ...

• The Counterlife (1986)
• American Pastoral (1997)
• I Married a Communist (1998)
• The Human Stain (2000)
• Exit Ghost (October 2007)

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Roth books

• The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography (1988)
• Deception: A Novel (1990)
• Patrimony: A Memoir (1991)
• Operation Shylock: A Confession (1993)
• The Plot Against America (2004)

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Kepesh novels

• The Breast (1972)
• The Professor of Desire (1977)
• The Dying Animal (2001)

The Breast (1972) is a novel by Philip Roth, in which the main character, David Kepesh, becomes a 155-pound breast. ... The Professor of Desire is a 1977 novel by Philip Roth (* 1933). ... The cover of The Dying Animal featuring the painting Le grand nu by Amedeo Modigliani The Dying Animal (2001) is a short novel by the US writer Philip Roth (born 1933). ...

Other novels

• Goodbye, Columbus (1959)
• Letting Go (1962)
• When She Was Good (1967)
• Portnoy's Complaint (1969)
• Our Gang (1971)
• The Great American Novel (1973)
• My Life As a Man (1974)
• Sabbath's Theater (1995)
• Everyman (2006)

Goodbye, Columbus (1959) is the title of the first book published by the American novelist Philip Roth, a collection of six stories. ... Letting Go is the first full-length novel written by Philip Roth (1961) and is set in the 1950s. ... When She Was Good (1967) is Philip Roths only novel starring a woman, Lucy Nelson. ... Portnoys Complaint book cover Portnoys Complaint (1969) is American writer Philip Roths fourth and, to date, still most popular novel, with many of its characteristics (ribald, comedic prose; themes of sexual desire and sexual frustration; a self-conscious literariness) having gone on to become Roth trademarks. ... Our Gang (1971) is Philip Roths fifth novel. ... The Great American Novel is a 1973 novel by Philip Roth. ... My Life as a Man (1974) is American writer Philip Roths seventh novel. ... Sabbaths Theater (1995, ISBN 0679772596) is a novel by Philip Roth about the exploits of 64-year-old Mickey Sabbath. ... Everyman (ISBN 061873516X) is a novella by Philip Roth, published by Houghton Mifflin in April 2006. ...

Collections

• Reading Myself and Others (1976)
• A Philip Roth Reader (1980)
• Shop Talk (2001)
• Miller, Ross, ed. Philip Roth, Novels and Stories 1959-1962 (Library of America, 2005) ISBN 978-1-93108279-2.
• Miller, Ross, ed. Philip Roth, Novels 1967-1972 (Library of America, 2005) ISBN 978-1-93108280-8.
• Miller, Ross, ed. Philip Roth, Novels 1973-1977 (Library of America, 2006) ISBN 978-1-93108296-9.
• Miller, Ross, ed. Philip Roth, Novels 1979-1985 (Library of America, 2007).

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Awards

• 1960 National Book Award for Goodbye, Columbus
• 1986 National Book Critics Circle Award for The Counterlife
• 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award for Patrimony
• 1994 PEN/Faulkner Award for Operation Shylock
• 1995 National Book Award for Sabbath's Theater
• 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for American Pastoral
• 1998 Ambassador Book Award of the English-Speaking Union for I Married a Communist
• 1998 National Medal of Arts [1]
• 2000 Prix du Meilleur livre étranger (France) for American Pastoral
• 2001 PEN/Faulkner Award for The Human Stain
• 2001 Gold Medal In Fiction from The American Academy of Arts and Letters
• 2001 WH Smith Literary Award for The Human Stain
• 2002 National Book Foundation's Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
• 2002 Prix Médicis étranger (France) for The Human Stain
• 2003 Honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Harvard University
• 2005 Sidewise Award for Alternate History for The Plot Against America
• 2006 PEN/Nabokov Award for lifetime achievement
• 2007 PEN/Faulkner Award for Everyman
• 2007 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction

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References

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See also

• Nathan Zuckerman
• Jewish American literature

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• "Philip Roth: Literary hit man with a 9/11 bullet in his gun", The Sunday Times, 2004-09-19. Retrieved on 2007-09-23. 
• Amidon, Stephen. "A guide to Philip Roth", The Sunday Times, 2007-09-23. Retrieved on 2007-09-23. 

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Further reading and literary criticism

• Alan Cooper, Philip Roth and the Jews (SUNY Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture), 1996 (ISBN 0-7914-2910-5)
• Till Kinzel, Die Tragödie und Komödie des amerikanischen Lebens. Eine Studie zu Zuckermans Amerika in Philip Roths Amerika-Trilogie (American Studies Monograph Series), Heidelberg: Winter, 2006 (ISBN 3-8253-5223-4)
• S. Milowitz, Philip Roth Considered: The Concentrationary Universe of the American Writer, 2000 (ISBN 0-8153-3957-7)
• Norman Podhoretz, "The Adventures of Philip Roth," Commentary (October 1998), reprinted as "Philip Roth, Then and Now" in The Norman Podhoretz Reader (2004), 327-48
• Derek Parker Royal, Philip Roth: New Perspectives on an American Author, 2005 (ISBN 0-275-98363-3)
• Elaine B. Safer, Mocking the Age: The Later Novels of Philip Roth (SUNY Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture), 2006 (ISBN 0-7914-6709-0)
• George J. Searles, ed., Conversations With Philip Roth, 1992 (ISBN 978-0878055586)
• Debra B. Shostak, Philip Roth-Countertexts, Counterlives, 2004 (ISBN 1-57003-542-3)
• Wiebke-Maria Wöltje, My finger on the pulse of the nation. Intellektuelle Protagonisten im Romanwerk Philip Roths (Mosaic, 26), Trier: WVT, 2006 (ISBN 3-88476-827-1)