Remembering Philip Roth

By Luis Diaz | May 30 2018 | Humanities & Social Sciences

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 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction. He twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians’ Prize for “the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003–2004.” Roth received PEN’s two most prestigious awards: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. In 2011 he received the National Humanities Medal at the White House, and was later named the fourth recipient of the Man Booker International Prize.

Below you can read The New York Times article on the life and work of one of the country’s most celebrated writers.

 

 

American Trilogy 1 (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize 
$18.00 US
Feb 03, 1998
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432 Pages
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Winner of the James Fennimore Cooper Prize
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