Philip Roth, author portrait
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Philip Roth

PHILIP ROTH won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral in 1997. 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. He died in 2018.
Nemesis
The Humbling
Indignation
Exit Ghost
Everyman
The Plot Against America
Shop Talk
The Dying Animal
Our Gang
Reading Myself and Others
The Human Stain
I Married a Communist
American Pastoral
Letting Go
Deception
The Facts
Sabbath's Theater
The Counterlife
Patrimony
The Anatomy Lesson
The Prague Orgy
Zuckerman Unbound
The Ghost Writer
The Great American Novel
When She Was Good
Portnoy's Complaint
The Breast
Operation Shylock
The Professor of Desire
Goodbye, Columbus
My Life as a Man

Books

Nemesis
The Humbling
Indignation
Exit Ghost
Everyman
The Plot Against America
Shop Talk
The Dying Animal
Our Gang
Reading Myself and Others
The Human Stain
I Married a Communist
American Pastoral
Letting Go
Deception
The Facts
Sabbath's Theater
The Counterlife
Patrimony
The Anatomy Lesson
The Prague Orgy
Zuckerman Unbound
The Ghost Writer
The Great American Novel
When She Was Good
Portnoy's Complaint
The Breast
Operation Shylock
The Professor of Desire
Goodbye, Columbus
My Life as a Man

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