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Philip RothPhilip Milton Roth (1933 - 2018) was an American novelist who gained fame with the 1959 novella Goodbye, Columbus, an irreverent and humorous portrait of Jewish-American life that earned him a National Book Award. In 1969 he became a major celebrity with the publication of the controversial Portnoy's Complaint, the humorous and sexually explicit psychoanalytical monologue of "a lust-ridden, mother-addicted young Jewish bachelor," filled with "intimate, shameful detail, and coarse, abusive language."

In 1997 Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House, and in 2002 received the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction, previously awarded to John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, and Saul Bellow, among others. He has twice won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

In 2005 The Plot Against America won the Society of American Historians' prize for "the outstanding historical novel on an American theme in 2003-2004." In the United Kingdom, The Plot Against America won the W. H. Smith Award for the Best Book of the Year, making Roth the first writer in the forty-six-year history of the prize to win it twice.

In 2005 Philip Roth also became the third living American writer to have his work published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of America. The last of the eight volumes was published in 2013.

The Philip Roth Society: rothsociety.org

Nemesis
Signed First Edition

Nemesis by Philip Roth

Indignation
Signed First Edition

Indignation by Philip Roth

Exit Ghost
Signed First Edition

Exit Ghost by Philip Roth

I Married a Communist
First UK Edition

I Married a Communist by Philip Roth

To see Philip Roth's bibliography, click here or scroll to the bottom of the page.

Philip Roth Bibliography


Zuckerman

  • The Ghost Writer - 1979
  • Zuckerman Unbound - 1981
  • The Anatomy Lesson - 1983
  • The Prague Orgy - 1985
  • The Counterlife - 1986*
  • American Pastoral - 1997*
  • I Married a Communist - 1998*
  • The Human Stain - 2000*
  • Exit Ghost - 2007*

Kepesh
  • The Breast - 1972
  • The Professor of Desire - 1977
  • The Dying Animal - 2001

Other
  • Goodbye, Columbus - 1959*
  • Letting Go - 1968
  • When She Was Good - 1967
  • Portnoy's Complaint - 1969
  • Our Gang - 1971
  • The Great American Novel - 1973
  • My Life As a Man - 1974
  • Deception: A Novel - 1990
  • Operation Shylock: A Confession - 1993*
  • Sabbath's Theater - 1995*
  • The Plot Against America - 2004*
  • Everyman - 2006*
  • Indignation - 2008
  • The Humbling - 2009
  • Nemesis - 2010
Non-Fiction

  • The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography - 1988
  • Patrimony: A True Story - 1991*
  • Reading Myself and Others - 1976
  • A Philip Roth Reader - 1980
  • Shop Talk - 2001
  • The Library of America's definitive edition of Philip Roth's collected works - 2005-13


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
  • 1997 - IMPAC Award longlist for Sabbath's Theater
  • 1998 - Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral
  • 1998 - Ambassador Book Award of the English-Speaking Union for I Married a Communist
  • 1998 - National Medal of Arts
  • 1999 - IMPAC Award longlist for American Pastoral
  • 2000 - Prix de Meilleur Livre Etranger (France) for American Pastoral
  • 2000 - IMPAC Award shortlist for I Married a Communist
  • 2001 - Franz Kafka Prize
  • 2001 - PEN/Faulkner Award for The Human Stain
  • 2001 - Gold Medal In Fiction for The American Academy of Arts and Letters
  • 2001 - WH Smith Literary Award for The Human Stain
  • 2002 - IMPAC Award longlist for The Human Stain
  • 2002 - Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters for the National Book Foundation
  • 2002 - Prix Medicis Etranger (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
  • 2005 - James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Best Historical Fiction for The Plot Against America
  • 2006 - PEN/Nabokov Award for lifetime acheivement
  • 2007 - PEN/Faulker Award for Everyman
  • 2007 - PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction
  • 2008 - IMPAC Award longlist for Everyman
  • 2009 - IMPAC Award longlist for Exit Ghost
  • 2010 - The Paris Review Hadada Prize
  • 2011 - National Humanities Medal for 2010
  • 2011 - Man Booker International Prize
  • 2012 - Prince of Asturias Awards for literature
  • 2013 - PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award for lifetime achievement and advocacy
  • 2013 - Commander of the Legion of Honor by the Republic of France


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