id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-860 Philip Roth - Wikipedia .html text/html 9213 1103 75 The May 21, 2006 issue of The New York Times Book Review 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.'" Six of Roth's novels were among the 22 selected: American Pastoral, The Counterlife, Operation Shylock, Sabbath's Theater, The Human Stain, and The Plot Against America.[46] 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."[47] In 2009 he was awarded the Welt-Literaturpreis of the German newspaper Die Welt.[48] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-860.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-860.txt