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Philip Roth


(Philip Milton Roth)
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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 prizes: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Series
David Kepesh
   1. The Breast (1972)
   2. The Professor of Desire (1977)
   3. The Dying Animal (2001)
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Nathan Zuckerman
   0. My Life as a Man (1974)
   1. The Ghost Writer (1979)
   2. Zuckerman Unbound (1981)
   3. The Anatomy Lesson (1983)
   4. The Prague Orgy (1985)
   5. The Counterlife (1987)
   6. American Pastoral (1997)
   7. I Married a Communist (1998)
   8. The Human Stain (2000)
   9. Exit Ghost (2007)
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American Trilogy
   1. American Pastoral (1997)
   2. I Married a Communist (1998)
   3. The Human Stain (2000)
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Novels
   Letting Go (1962)
   When She Was Good (1967)
   Portnoy's Complaint (1969)
   Our Gang (1971)
   The Great American Novel (1973)
   Deception (1990)
   Patrimony (1991)
   Operation Shylock (1993)
   Sabbath's Theater (1995)
   His Mistress's Voice (1995)
   The Plot Against America (2004)
   Everyman (2006)
   Indignation (2008)
   The Humbling (2009)
   Nemesis (2010)
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Collections
   Goodbye, Columbus (1959)
   A Philip Roth Reader (1980)
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Novellas and Short Stories
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Non fiction show
 
Omnibus editions show
 
Philip Roth recommends
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Forest Dark (2017)
Nicole Krauss
"A brilliant novel. I am full of admiration."
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The Book of Getting Even (2008)
Benjamin Taylor
"Among the most original novels I have read in recent years."
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Liars and Saints (2003)
Maile Meloy
"Quiet, unastonished precision... an impressive achievement."

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Anthologies containing stories by Philip Roth
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100 Years of the Best American Short Stories (2015)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Lorrie Moore and Heidi Pitlor
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The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2008)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Katrina Kenison and John Updike

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Awards
National Book Award for Fiction Best Book winner (1960) : Goodbye, Columbus: And Five Short Stories
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (1980) : The Ghost Writer
National Book Award for Fiction Best Book nominee (1984) : The Anatomy Lesson
National Book Award for Fiction Best Book nominee (1987) : The Counterlife
PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction Best Book winner (1994) : Operation Shylock: A Confession
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (1994) : Operation Shylock: A Confession
National Book Award for Fiction Best Book winner (1995) : Sabbath's Theater
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (1996) : Sabbath's Theater
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Best Book winner (1998) : American Pastoral
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards Best Novel nominee (2000) : I Married a Communist
PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction Best Book winner (2001) : The Human Stain
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee (2005) : The Plot Against America
PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction Best Book winner (2007) : Everyman


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