Philip Roth - Wikipedia Philip Roth From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search American novelist For those of the same or a similar name, see Phillip Roth. Philip Roth Roth in 1973 Born Philip Milton Roth (1933-03-19)March 19, 1933 Newark, New Jersey, U.S. Died May 22, 2018(2018-05-22) (aged 85) Manhattan, New York City, U.S. Resting place Bard College Cemetery Occupation Novelist Education Bucknell University (BA) University of Chicago (MA) Period 1959–2010 Genre Literary fiction Spouse Margaret Martinson Williams ​ ​ (m. 1959; div. 1963)​ Claire Bloom ​ ​ (m. 1990; div. 1995)​ Partner Claire Bloom (1976–1990) Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth's fiction, regularly set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey, is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "sensual, ingenious style" and for its provocative explorations of American identity.[1] Roth first gained attention with the 1959 novella Goodbye, Columbus; the collection so titled received the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.[2][3] He became one of the most awarded American writers of his generation. His books twice received the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle award, and three times the PEN/Faulkner Award. He received a Pulitzer Prize for his 1997 novel American Pastoral, which featured one of his best-known characters, Nathan Zuckerman, a character in many of Roth's novels. The Human Stain (2000), another Zuckerman novel, was awarded the United Kingdom's WH Smith Literary Award for the best book of the year. In 2001, in Prague, Roth received the inaugural Franz Kafka Prize. Contents 1 Early life and academic pursuits 1.1 Academic career 2 Writing career 3 Influences and themes 4 Personal life 5 Death, burial, and legacy 6 List of works 6.1 "Zuckerman" novels 6.2 "Roth" novels and memoirs 6.3 "Kepesh" novels 6.4 "Nemeses" novels 6.5 Fiction with other protagonists 7 Awards and nominations 7.1 Films 7.2 Honors 8 Honorary degrees 9 References 9.1 Citations 9.2 Sources 10 Further reading and literary criticism 11 External links Early life and academic pursuits[edit] Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey, on March 19, 1933,[4] and grew up at 81 Summit Avenue in the Weequahic neighborhood.[4] He was the second child of Bess (née Finkel) and Herman Roth, an insurance broker.[5] Roth's family was Jewish, and his parents were second-generation Americans. Roth's father's parents came from Kozlov near Lviv (then Lemberg) in Austrian Galicia; his mother's ancestors were from the region of Kyiv in Ukraine. He graduated from Newark's Weequahic High School in or around 1950.[6] In 1969 Arnold H. Lubasch wrote in The New York Times, "It has provided the focus for the fiction of Philip Roth, the novelist who evokes his era at Weequahic High School in the highly acclaimed Portnoy's Complaint. ... Besides identifying Weequahic High School by name, the novel specifies such sites as the Empire Burlesque, the Weequahic Diner, the Newark Museum and Irvington Park, all local landmarks that helped shape the youth of the real Roth and the fictional Portnoy, both graduates of Weequahic class of '50." The 1950 Weequahic Yearbook calls Roth a "boy of real intelligence, combined with wit and common sense." He was known as a comedian during his time at school.[7] Academic career[edit] Roth attended Rutgers University in Newark for a year, then transferred to Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, where he earned a B.A. magna cum laude in English and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received a scholarship to attend the University of Chicago, where he earned an M.A. in English literature[8] in 1955 and briefly worked as an instructor in the university's writing program.[9] That same year, rather than wait to be drafted, Roth enlisted in the army, but he suffered a back injury during basic training and was given a medical discharge. He returned to Chicago in 1956 to study for a PhD in literature but dropped out after one term.[10] Roth taught creative writing at the University of Iowa and Princeton University. He later continued his academic career at the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught comparative literature before retiring from teaching in 1991.[9] Writing career[edit] Roth's work first appeared in print in the Chicago Review while he was studying, and later teaching, at the University of Chicago.[11][12][13] His first book, Goodbye, Columbus, contains the novella Goodbye, Columbus and four short stories. It won the National Book Award in 1960. He published his first full-length novel, Letting Go, in 1962. In 1967 he published When She Was Good, set in the WASP Midwest in the 1940s. It is based in part on the life of Margaret Martinson Williams, whom Roth married in 1959.[10] The publication in 1969 of his fourth and most controversial novel, Portnoy's Complaint, gave Roth widespread commercial and critical success, causing his profile to rise significantly.[3][14] During the 1970s Roth experimented in various modes, from the political satire Our Gang (1971) to the Kafkaesque The Breast (1972). By the end of the decade Roth had created his alter ego Nathan Zuckerman. In a series of highly self-referential novels and novellas that followed between 1979 and 1986, Zuckerman appeared as either the main character or an interlocutor. Sabbath's Theater (1995) may have Roth's most lecherous protagonist, Mickey Sabbath, a disgraced former puppeteer; it won his second National Book Award.[15] In complete contrast, American Pastoral (1997), the first volume of his so-called second Zuckerman trilogy, focuses on the life of virtuous Newark star athlete Swede Levov, and the tragedy that befalls him when Levov's teenage daughter becomes a domestic terrorist during the late 1960s; it won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.[16] I Married a Communist (1998) focuses on the McCarthy era. The Human Stain examines identity politics in 1990s America. The Dying Animal (2001) is a short novel about eros and death that revisits literary professor David Kepesh, protagonist of two 1970s works, The Breast and The Professor of Desire (1977). In The Plot Against America (2004), Roth imagines an alternative American history in which Charles Lindbergh, aviator hero and isolationist, is elected U.S. President in 1940, and the U.S. negotiates an understanding with Hitler's Nazi Germany and embarks on its own program of anti-Semitism. Roth's novel Everyman, a meditation on illness, aging, desire, and death, was published in May 2006. It was Roth's third book to win the PEN/Faulkner Award, making him the only person so honored. Exit Ghost, which again features Nathan Zuckerman, was released in October 2007. It was the last Zuckerman novel.[17] Indignation, Roth's 29th book, was published on September 16, 2008. Set in 1951, during the Korean War, it follows Marcus Messner's departure from Newark to Ohio's Winesburg College, where he begins his sophomore year. In 2009, Roth's 30th book, The Humbling, was published. It tells the story of the last performances of Simon Axler, a celebrated stage actor. Roth's 31st book, Nemesis, was published on October 5, 2010. According to the book's notes, Nemesis is the last in a series of four "short novels," after Everyman, Indignation and The Humbling. In October 2009, during an interview with Tina Brown of The Daily Beast to promote The Humbling, Roth considered the future of literature and its place in society, stating his belief that within 25 years the reading of novels will be regarded as a "cultic" activity: I was being optimistic about 25 years really. I think it's going to be cultic. I think always people will be reading them but it will be a small group of people. Maybe more people than now read Latin poetry, but somewhere in that range. ... To read a novel requires a certain amount of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading. If you read a novel in more than two weeks you don't read the novel really. So I think that kind of concentration and focus and attentiveness is hard to come by—it's hard to find huge numbers of people, large numbers of people, significant numbers of people, who have those qualities[.][18] When asked about the prospects for printed versus digital books, Roth was equally downbeat: The book can't compete with the screen. It couldn't compete beginning with the movie screen. It couldn't compete with the television screen, and it can't compete with the computer screen. ... Now we have all those screens, so against all those screens a book couldn't measure up.[19] This was not the first time Roth had expressed pessimism about the future of the novel and its significance in recent years. Talking to The Observer's Robert McCrum in 2001, he said, "I'm not good at finding 'encouraging' features in American culture. I doubt that aesthetic literacy has much of a future here."[18] In an October 2012 interview with the French magazine Les Inrockuptibles, Roth announced that he would be retiring from writing[20] and confirmed subsequently in Le Monde that he would no longer publish fiction.[21] In a May 2014 interview with Alan Yentob for the BBC, Roth said, "this is my last appearance on television, my absolutely last appearance on any stage anywhere."[22] Influences and themes[edit] Much of Roth's fiction revolves around semi-autobiographical themes, while self-consciously and playfully addressing the perils of establishing connections between Roth and his fictional lives and voices.[23] Examples of this close relationship between the author's life and his characters' include narrators and protagonists such as David Kepesh and Nathan Zuckerman as well as the character "Philip Roth", who appears in The Plot Against America and of whom there are two in Operation Shylock. Critic Jacques Berlinerblau noted in The Chronicle of Higher Education that these fictional voices create a complex and tricky experience for readers, deceiving them into believing they "know" Roth.[23] In Roth's fiction the question of authorship is intertwined with the theme of the idealistic, secular Jewish son who attempts to distance himself from Jewish customs and traditions, and from what he perceives as the sometimes suffocating influence of parents, rabbis, and other community leaders.[24] Roth's fiction has been described by critics as pervaded by "a kind of alienation that is enlivened and exacerbated by what binds it".[24] Roth's first work, Goodbye, Columbus, was an irreverently humorous depiction of the life of middle-class Jewish Americans, and met controversy among reviewers, who were highly polarized in their judgments;[3] one criticized it as infused with a sense of self-loathing. In response, Roth, in his 1963 essay "Writing About Jews" (collected in Reading Myself and Others), maintained that he wanted to explore the conflict between the call to Jewish solidarity and his desire to be free to question the values and morals of middle-class Jewish Americans uncertain of their identities in an era of cultural assimilation and upward social mobility: The cry 'Watch out for the goyim!' at times seems more the expression of an unconscious wish than of a warning: Oh that they were out there, so that we could be together here! A rumor of persecution, a taste of exile, might even bring with it the old world of feelings and habits—something to replace the new world of social accessibility and moral indifference, the world which tempts all our promiscuous instincts, and where one cannot always figure out what a Jew is that a Christian is not.[25] In Roth's fiction the exploration of "promiscuous instincts" within the context of Jewish lives, mainly from a male viewpoint, plays an important role. In the words of critic Hermione Lee: Philip Roth's fiction strains to shed the burden of Jewish traditions and proscriptions. ... The liberated Jewish consciousness, let loose into the disintegration of the American Dream, finds itself deracinated and homeless. American society and politics, by the late sixties, are a grotesque travesty of what Jewish immigrants had traveled towards: liberty, peace, security, a decent liberal democracy.[26] While Roth's fiction has strong autobiographical influences, it also incorporates social commentary and political satire, most obviously in Our Gang and Operation Shylock. From the 1990s on Roth's fiction often combined autobiographical elements with retrospective dramatizations of postwar American life. Roth described American Pastoral and the two following novels as a loosely connected "American trilogy". Each of these novels treats aspects of the postwar era against the backdrop of the nostalgically remembered Jewish-American childhood of Nathan Zuckerman, in which the experience of life on the American home front during the Second World War features prominently.[citation needed] In much of Roth's fiction, the 1940s, comprising Roth's and Zuckerman's childhood, mark a high point of American idealism and social cohesion. A more satirical treatment of the patriotism and idealism of the war years is evident in Roth's comic novels, such as Portnoy's Complaint and Sabbath's Theater. In The Plot Against America, the alternate history of the war years dramatizes the prevalence of anti-Semitism and racism in America at the time, despite the promotion of increasingly influential anti-racist ideals during the war. In his fiction Roth portrayed the 1940s, and the New Deal era of the 1930s that preceded it, as a heroic phase in American history. A sense of frustration with social and political developments in the United States since the 1940s is palpable in the American trilogy and Exit Ghost, but had already been present in Roth's earlier works that contained political and social satire, such as Our Gang and The Great American Novel. Writing about the latter, Hermione Lee points to the sense of disillusionment with "the American Dream" in Roth's fiction: "The mythic words on which Roth's generation was brought up—winning, patriotism, gamesmanship—are desanctified; greed, fear, racism, and political ambition are disclosed as the motive forces behind the 'all-American ideals'."[26] Although Roth's writings often explored the Jewish experience in America, Roth rejected being labeled a Jewish-American writer. "It's not a question that interests me. I know exactly what it means to be Jewish and it's really not interesting," he told the Guardian newspaper in 2005. "I'm an American."[27] Personal life[edit] While at Chicago, Roth met Margaret Martinson in 1956, who became his first wife in 1959. Their separation in 1963, and Martinson's subsequent death in a car crash in 1968, left a lasting mark on Roth's literary output. Martinson was the inspiration for female characters in several of Roth's novels, including Lucy Nelson in When She Was Good and Maureen Tarnopol in My Life as a Man.[28] Roth was an atheist who once said, "When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place."[29][30] He also said during an interview with The Guardian: "I'm exactly the opposite of religious, I'm anti-religious. I find religious people hideous. I hate the religious lies. It's all a big lie," and "It's not a neurotic thing, but the miserable record of religion—I don't even want to talk about it. It's not interesting to talk about the sheep referred to as believers. When I write, I'm alone. It's filled with fear and loneliness and anxiety—and I never needed religion to save me."[31] In 1990 Roth married his longtime companion, English actress Claire Bloom, with whom he had been living since 1976. In 1994 they divorced, and in 1996 Bloom published a memoir, Leaving a Doll's House, that depicted Roth as a misogynist and control freak. Some critics have detected parallels between Bloom and the character Eve Frame in Roth's I Married a Communist (1998).[10] The novel Operation Shylock (1993) and other works draw on a post-operative breakdown[32][33][34] and Roth's experience of the temporary side effects of the sedative Halcion (triazolam), prescribed post-operatively in the 1980s.[35][36] Death, burial, and legacy[edit] Roth died at a Manhattan hospital of heart failure on May 22, 2018, at the age of 85.[37][10][38] Roth was buried at the Bard College Cemetery in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, where in 1999 he taught a class. He had originally planned to be buried next to his parents at the Gomel Chesed Cemetery in Newark, but changed his mind about fifteen years before his death, in order to be buried close to his friend the novelist Norman Manea.[39] Roth expressly banned any religious rituals from his funeral service, though it was noted that only one day after his burial a pebble had been placed on top of his tombstone in accordance with Jewish tradition.[40] Among the admirers of Roth's work is famed New Jersey singer Bruce Springsteen. Roth read the musician's autobiography Born to Run and Springsteen read Roth's American Pastoral, I Married A Communist, and The Human Stain. Springsteen said of Roth's work: "I'll tell you, those three recent books by Philip Roth just knocked me on my ass ... To be in his sixties making work that is so strong, so full of revelations about love and emotional pain, that's the way to live your artistic life. Sustain, sustain, sustain."[41] List of works[edit] Main article: Philip Roth bibliography "Zuckerman" novels[edit] Zuckerman Bound (1979–1985) 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) "Roth" novels and memoirs[edit] The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography (1988) Deception: A Novel (1990) Patrimony: A True Story (1991) Operation Shylock: A Confession (1993) The Plot Against America (2004) "Kepesh" novels[edit] The Breast (1972) The Professor of Desire (1977) The Dying Animal (2001) "Nemeses" novels[edit] Everyman (2006) Indignation (2008) The Humbling (2009) Nemesis (2010) Fiction with other protagonists[edit] Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories (1959) Letting Go (1962) When She Was Good (1967) Portnoy's Complaint (1969) Our Gang (1971) The Great American Novel (1973) My Life as a Man (1974) Sabbath's Theater (1995) Awards and nominations[edit] This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Philip Roth" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (May 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Two of Roth's works won the National Book Award for Fiction; four others were finalists. Two won National Book Critics Circle awards; another five were finalists. He also won three PEN/Faulkner Awards (for Operation Shylock, The Human Stain, and Everyman) and a Pulitzer Prize for his 1997 novel American Pastoral.[16] In 2001 The Human Stain was awarded the United Kingdom's WH Smith Literary Award for the best book of the year. In 2002 Roth was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.[42] In 2003 literary critic Harold Bloom named him one of the four major American novelists still at work, along with Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, and Cormac McCarthy.[43] The Plot Against America (2004) won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History in 2005 as well as the Society of American Historians' James Fenimore Cooper Prize. Roth was also awarded the United Kingdom's WH Smith Literary Award for the best book of the year, an award he received twice.[44] He was honored in his hometown in October 2005 when then-mayor Sharpe James presided over the unveiling of a street sign in Roth's name on the corner of Summit and Keer Avenues where Roth lived for much of his childhood, a setting prominent in The Plot Against America. A plaque on the house where the Roths lived was also unveiled. In May 2006 he received the PEN/Nabokov Award, and in 2007 he was awarded the PEN/Faulkner award for Everyman, making him the award's only three-time winner. In April 2007 he was chosen as the recipient of the first PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction.[45] 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] Roth was awarded the 42nd Edward MacDowell Medal by the MacDowell Colony in 2001.[49] Roth was awarded the 2010 National Humanities Medal by U.S. President Barack Obama in the East Room of the White House on March 2, 2011.[50][51] In May 2011, Roth was awarded the Man Booker International Prize for lifetime achievement in fiction on the world stage, the fourth winner of the biennial prize.[52] One of the judges, Carmen Callil, a publisher of the feminist Virago house, withdrew in protest, referring to Roth's work as "Emperor's clothes". She said "he goes on and on and on about the same subject in almost every single book. It's as though he's sitting on your face and you can't breathe ... I don't rate him as a writer at all ...".[53] Observers noted that Callil had a conflict of interest, having published a book by Claire Bloom (Roth's ex-wife) that criticized Roth and lambasted their marriage.[53] In response, one of the two other Booker judges, Rick Gekoski, remarked: In 1959 he writes Goodbye, Columbus and it's a masterpiece, magnificent. Fifty-one years later he's 78 years old and he writes Nemesis and it is so wonderful, such a terrific novel ... Tell me one other writer who 50 years apart writes masterpieces ... If you look at the trajectory of the average novel writer, there is a learning period, then a period of high achievement, then the talent runs out and in middle age they start slowly to decline. People say why aren't Martin [Amis] and Julian [Barnes] getting on the Booker prize shortlist, but that's what happens in middle age. Philip Roth, though, gets better and better in middle age. In the 1990s he was almost incapable of not writing a masterpiece—The Human Stain, The Plot Against America, I Married a Communist. He was 65–70 years old, what the hell's he doing writing that well?[54] In 2012 Roth received the Prince of Asturias Award for literature.[55] On March 19, 2013, his 80th birthday was celebrated in public ceremonies at the Newark Museum.[56] Films[edit] Eight of Roth's novels and short stories have been adapted as films: Goodbye, Columbus; Portnoy's Complaint; The Human Stain; The Dying Animal, adapted as Elegy; The Humbling; Indignation; and American Pastoral. In addition, The Ghost Writer was adapted for television in 1984.[57] In 2014 filmmaker Alex Ross Perry made Listen Up Philip, which was influenced by Roth's work. Honors[edit] 1960 National Book Award for Goodbye, Columbus[2] 1960 National Jewish Book Award for Goodbye, Columbus[58] 1975 National Book Award finalist for My Life as A Man[59] 1978 NBCCA finalist for The Professor Of Desire 1980 Pulitzer Prize finalist for The Ghost Writer[16] 1980 National Book Award finalist for The Ghost Writer[59] 1980 NBCCA finalist for The Ghost Writer 1984 National Book Award finalist for The Anatomy Lesson[59] 1984 NBCCA finalist for The Anatomy Lesson 1986 National Book Critics Circle Award (NBCCA) for The Counterlife 1987 National Book Award finalist for The Counterlife[59] 1988 National Jewish Book Award for The Counterlife[58] 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award (NBCCA) for Patrimony[59] 1994 PEN/Faulkner Award for Operation Shylock 1994 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Operation Shylock[16] 1995 National Book Award for Sabbath's Theater[15] 1996 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Sabbath's Theater[16] 1997 International Dublin Literary Award longlist for Sabbath's Theater 1998 Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral[16] 1998 NBCCA finalist for American Pastoral 1998 Ambassador Book Award of the English-Speaking Union for I Married a Communist[59] 1998 National Medal of Arts[59] 1999 International Dublin Literary Award longlist for American Pastoral 2000 Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (France) for American Pastoral 2000 International Dublin Literary Award shortlist for I Married a Communist 2000 National Jewish Book Award for The Human Stain[58] 2001 Franz Kafka Prize 2001 PEN/Faulkner Award for The Human Stain 2001 Gold Medal In Fiction from The American Academy of Arts and Letters[59] 2001 42nd Edward MacDowell Medal from the MacDowell Colony 2001 WH Smith Literary Award for The Human Stain 2002 International Dublin Literary Award longlist for The Human Stain 2002 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation[42] 2002 Prix Médicis Étranger (France) for The Human Stain 2005 NBCCA finalist for The Plot Against America 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 2005 Nominee for Man Booker International Prize 2005 WH Smith Literary Award for The Plot Against America 2006 PEN/Nabokov Award for lifetime achievement 2007 PEN/Faulkner Award for Everyman[59] 2007 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction 2008 International Dublin Literary Award longlist for Everyman 2009 International Dublin Literary Award longlist for Exit Ghost 2010 The Paris Review Hadada Prize 2011 National Humanities Medal for 2010 2011 Man Booker International Prize 2012 Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction 2012 Prince of Asturias Awards for literature[52] 2013 PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award for lifetime achievement and advocacy.[60][61][62] 2013 Commander of the Legion of Honor by the Republic of France.[63] Honorary degrees[edit] This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. Location Date School Degree  Pennsylvania 1979 Bucknell University Doctorate  New York 1985 Bard College Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) [64]  New York May 20, 1987 Columbia University Doctor of Humane Letters (DHL) [65]  New Jersey May 21, 1987 Rutgers University Doctor of Humane Letters (DHL) [66][67]  Rhode Island 2001 Brown University Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) [68]  Pennsylvania 2003 University of Pennsylvania Doctor of Humane Letters (DHL) [69]  Massachusetts June 5, 2003 Harvard University Doctor of Humane Letters (DHL) [70]  New York May 22, 2014 Jewish Theological Seminary of America Doctorate [71] References[edit] Citations[edit] ^ U.S. Department of State, U.S. Life, "American Prose, 1945–1990: Realism and Experimentation" Archived March 4, 2011, at the Wayback Machine ^ a b "National Book Awards – 1960". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-11. (With acceptance speech by Roth and essay by Larry Dark and others (five) from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.) ^ a b c Brauner (2005), pp. 43–47 ^ a b Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of American writers. 2001. p. 350. ISBN 978-0-87779-022-8. ^ Shechner, Mark (2003). Up Society's Ass, Copper: Rereading Philip Roth. Univ of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0299193546 – via Google Books. ^ Lubasch, Arnold H. "Philip Roth Shakes Weequahic High", The New York Times, February 28, 1969. Accessed September 8, 2007 ^ Weequahic Yearbook (1950) ^ "Here are 5 essential works of fiction by Philip Roth to remember him by". Retrieved May 28, 2018. ^ a b "Jewish American author Philip Roth dies at 85". Israel National News. Retrieved May 28, 2018. ^ a b c d McGrath, Charles (May 22, 2018). "Philip Roth, Towering Novelist Who Explored Lust, Jewish Life and America, Dies at 85". The New York Times. Retrieved June 12, 2018. ^ Roth, Philip. 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Roth discusses Martinson's portrait in this memoir. He calls her "Josie" in When She Was Good on pp. 149 and 175. He discusses her as an inspiration for My Life as a Man throughout the book's second half, most completely in the chapter "Girl of My Dreams," which includes this on p. 110: "Why should I have tried to make up anything better? How could I?" Her influence upon Portnoy's Complaint is seen in The Facts as more diffuse, a kind of loosening-up for the author: "It took time and it took blood, and not, really, until I began Portnoy's Complaint would I be able to cut loose with anything approaching her gift for flabbergasting boldness." (p. 149) ^ The Wit and Blasphemy of Atheists: 500 Greatest Quips and Quotes from Freethinkers, Non-Believers and the Happily Damned. Ulysses Press. 2011. p. 190. ISBN 978-1569759707. When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place. – Philip Roth ^ Braver, Rita. "Philip Roth on Fame, Sex and God". CBS Interactive Inc. Retrieved May 5, 2014. 'Do you consider yourself a religious person?' 'No, I don't have a religious bone in my body,' Roth said. 'You don't?' 'No.' 'So, do you feel like there's a God out there?' Braver asked. 'I'm afraid there isn't, no,' Roth said. 'You know that telling the whole world that you don't believe in God is going to, you know, have people say, "Oh my goodness, you know, that's a terrible thing for him to say,"' Braver said. Roth replied, 'When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.' ^ Krasnik, Martin (December 14, 2005). "It no longer feels a great injustice that I have to die" – via The Guardian. ^ p. 5, Philip Roth, The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography, Random House, 2011: "I'm talking about a breakdown. Although there's no need to delve into particulars ... what was to have been minor surgery ... led to an extreme depression that carried me right to the edge of emotional and mental dissolution. It was in the period of post-crack-up medication, with the clarity attending the remission of an illness ..." ^ p. 79, Timothy Parrish (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Philip Roth, Cambridge University Press, 2007: "In point of fact, Roth's surgeries (one the knee surgery, which is followed by a nervous breakdown, the other heart surgery) span the period ..." ^ pp. 108–09, Harold Bloom, Philip Roth, Infobase Publishing, 2003 ^ Stoeffel, Kat (May 24, 2012). "Roth on 'Roth v. Roth v. Roth'". New York Observer. Retrieved September 13, 2012. ^ McCrum, Robert (August 21, 2008). "The story of my lives". The Guardian. London. Retrieved September 13, 2012. ^ "Author Philip Roth dies aged 85". BBC News. May 23, 2018. Retrieved May 23, 2018. ^ "American literary giant Philip Roth dies". May 23, 2018. Retrieved May 28, 2018 – via www.bbc.com. ^ JTA (May 26, 2018). "Philip Roth, Who 'Forbade' Jewish Rituals at His Funeral, to Be Buried Monday". 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Retrieved May 28, 2018. ^ "Past Rutgers University Honorary Degree Recipients – Office of the Secretary of the University". universitysecretary.rutgers.edu. Retrieved May 28, 2018. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on October 19, 2015. Retrieved May 27, 2018.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) ^ "Honorary Degrees – The Corporation of Brown University". www.brown.edu. Retrieved May 28, 2018. ^ "Penn: Office of the University Secretary: Chronological Listing of Honorary Degrees". secure.www.upenn.edu. Retrieved May 28, 2018. ^ "11 awarded honorary degrees". June 5, 2003. Retrieved May 28, 2018. ^ "Philip Roth, onetime 'enfant terrible,' gets JTS honor". www.jta.org. Retrieved May 28, 2018. Sources[edit] Brauner, David (1969) Getting in Your Retaliation First: Narrative Strategies in Portnoy's Complaint in Royal, Derek Parker (2005) Philip Roth: new perspectives on an American author, chapter 3 Greenberg, Robert (Winter 1997). "Transgression in the Fiction of Philip Roth". Twentieth Century Literature. Hofstra University. 43 (4): 487–506. doi:10.2307/441747. JSTOR 441747. Archived from the original on March 9, 2007. Saxton, Martha (1974) Philip Roth Talks about His Own Work Literary Guild June 1974, n.2. Also published in Philip Roth, George John Searles (1992) Conversations with Philip Roth p. 78 Further reading and literary criticism[edit] Balint, Benjamin, "Philip Roth's Counterlives," Books & Ideas, May 5, 2014. Bloom, Harold, ed., Modern Critical Views of Philip Roth, Chelsea House, New York, 2003. Bloom, Harold and Welsch, Gabe, eds., Modern Critical Interpretations of Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint. Broomall, Penn.: Chelsea House, 2003. Cooper, Alan, Philip Roth and the Jews (SUNY Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture). Albany: SUNY Press, 1996. Finkielkraut, Alain, "La plaisanterie" [on The Human Stain], in Un coeur intelligent. Paris: Stock/Flammarion, 2009. Finkielkraut, Alain, "La complainte du désamour" (on The Professor of Desire), in Et si l'amour durait. Paris: Stock, 2011. Kinzel, Till, Die Tragödie und Komödie des amerikanischen Lebens. Eine Studie zu Zuckermans Amerika in Philip Roths Amerika-Trilogie (American Studies Monograph Series). Heidelberg: Universitaetsverlag Winter, 2006. Milowitz, Steven, Philip Roth Considered: The Concentrationary Universe of the American Writer. New York: Routledge, 2000. Morley, Catherine, The Quest for Epic in Contemporary American Literature. New York: Routledge, 2008. Parrish, Timothy, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Philip Roth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pierpont, Claudia Roth Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013. Podhoretz, Norman, "The Adventures of Philip Roth," Commentary (October 1998), reprinted as "Philip Roth, Then and Now" in The Norman Podhoretz Reader. New York: Free Press, 2004. Posnock, Ross, Philip Roth's Rude Truth: The Art of Immaturity. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. Royal, Derek Parker, Philip Roth: New Perspectives on an American Author. Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2005. Safer, Elaine B., Mocking the Age: The Later Novels of Philip Roth (SUNY Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture). Albany: SUNY Press, 2006. Searles, George J., ed., Conversations With Philip Roth. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1992. Searles, George J., The Fiction of Philip Roth and John Updike. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1984. Shostak, Debra B., Philip Roth: Countertexts, Counterlives. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2004. Simic, Charles, "The Nicest Boy in the World," The New York Review of Books 55, no. 15 (October 9, 2008): 4–7.[1] Swirski, Peter, "It Can't Happen Here, or Politics, Emotions, and Philip Roth's The Plot Against America." American Utopia and Social Engineering in Literature, Social Thought, and Political History. New York, Routledge, 2011. Taylor, Benjamin. Here We Are: My Friendship with Philip Roth. New York: Penguin Random House, 2020. Wöltje, Wiebke-Maria, My finger on the pulse of the nation: Intellektuelle Protagonisten im Romanwerk Philip Roths (Mosaic, 26). Trier: WVT, 2006. External links[edit] Philip Rothat Wikipedia's sister projects Media from Wikimedia Commons Quotations from Wikiquote Data from Wikidata Philip Roth interview in USA: Writers (NET) in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting. Televised July 10, 1966 Literary Encyclopedia biography The Philip Roth Society Philip Roth looks back on a legendary career, and forward to his final act American Master's Philip Roth: Unmasked. Works by Philip Roth at Open Library Library resources in your library and in other libraries by Philip Roth Web of Stories online video archive: Roth talks about his life and work in great depth and detail. Recorded in NYC, March 2011 Appearances on C-SPAN Philip Roth at the Internet Broadway Database Philip Roth on IMDb  Guide to the Jerome Perzigian Collection of Philip Roth 1958-1987 at the University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center v t e Works by Philip Roth Fiction Goodbye, Columbus (1959) Letting Go (1962) When She Was Good (1967) Portnoy's Complaint (1969) Our Gang (1971) The Great American Novel (1973) My Life as a Man (1974) Sabbath's Theater (1995) Kepesh novels The Breast (1972) The Professor of Desire (1977) The Dying Animal (2001) Roth books The Facts (1988) Deception (1990) Patrimony (1991) Operation Shylock (1993) The Plot Against America (2004) Zuckerman novels Zuckerman Bound 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) Nemeses: Short Novels Everyman (2006) Indignation (2008) The Humbling (2009) Nemesis (2010) Collections Reading Myself and Others (1976) A Philip Roth Reader (1980, revised edition 1993) Shop Talk (2001) The Library of America's definitive edition of Philip Roth's collected works (2005–17) Film/TV adaptations Goodbye, Columbus (1969) Portnoy's Complaint (1972) The Human Stain (2003) Elegy (2008) The Humbling (2014) Indignation (2016) American Pastoral (2016) The Plot Against America (2020) Deception (TBA) Awards for Philip Roth v t e Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1918–1925 His Family by Ernest Poole (1918) The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (1919) The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1921) Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (1922) One of Ours by Willa Cather (1923) The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson (1924) So Big by Edna Ferber (1925) 1926–1950 Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (declined) (1926) Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield (1927) The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (1928) Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (1929) Laughing Boy by Oliver La Farge (1930) Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (1931) The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (1932) The Store by Thomas Sigismund Stribling (1933) Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Pafford Miller (1934) Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (1935) Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis (1936) Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1937) The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand (1938) The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1939) The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1940) In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow (1942) Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair (1943) Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin (1944) A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (1945) All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (1947) Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener (1948) Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens (1949) The Way West by A. B. Guthrie Jr. (1950) 1951–1975 The Town by Conrad Richter (1951) The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (1952) The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (1953) A Fable by William Faulkner (1955) Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (1956) A Death in the Family by James Agee (1958) The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor (1959) Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (1960) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1961) The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor (1962) The Reivers by William Faulkner (1963) The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau (1965) The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter (1966) The Fixer by Bernard Malamud (1967) The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron (1968) House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday (1969) The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford by Jean Stafford (1970) Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (1972) The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (1973) No award given (1974) The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (1975) 1976–2000 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (1976) No award given (1977) Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson (1978) The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (1979) The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (1980) A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (1981) Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (1982) The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1983) Ironweed by William Kennedy (1984) Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (1985) Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (1986) A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (1987) Beloved by Toni Morrison (1988) Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (1989) The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (1990) Rabbit at Rest by John Updike (1991) A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (1992) A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (1993) The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (1994) The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (1995) Independence Day by Richard Ford (1996) Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (1997) American Pastoral by Philip Roth (1998) The Hours by Michael Cunningham (1999) Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (2000) 2001–present The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (2001) Empire Falls by Richard Russo (2002) Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (2003) The Known World by Edward P. Jones (2004) Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (2005) March by Geraldine Brooks (2006) The Road by Cormac McCarthy (2007) The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz (2008) Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (2009) Tinkers by Paul Harding (2010) A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (2011) No award given (2012) The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson (2013) The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (2014) All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (2015) The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen (2016) The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (2017) Less by Andrew Sean Greer (2018) The Overstory by Richard Powers (2019) The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (2020) v t e National Book Award for Fiction (1950–1974) The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren (1950) Collected Stories of William Faulkner by William Faulkner (1951) From Here to Eternity by James Jones (1952) Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1953) The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow (1954) A Fable by William Faulkner (1955) Ten North Frederick by John O'Hara (1956) The Field of Vision by Wright Morris (1957) The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever (1958) The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud (1959) Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth (1960) The Waters of Kronos by Conrad Richter (1961) The Moviegoer by Walker Percy (1962) Morte d'Urban by J. F. Powers (1963) The Centaur by John Updike (1964) Herzog by Saul Bellow (1965) The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter (1966) The Fixer by Bernard Malamud (1967) The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder (1968) Steps by Jerzy Kosiński (1969) them by Joyce Carol Oates (1970) Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow (1971) The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor (1972) Chimera by John Barth (1973) Augustus by John Williams (1973) Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1974) A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1974) Complete list (1950–1974) (1975–1999) (2000–2024) v t e National Book Award for Fiction (1975–1999) Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone (1975) The Hair of Harold Roux by Thomas Williams (1975) J R by William Gaddis (1976) The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner (1977) Blood Tie by Mary Lee Settle (1978) Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien (1979) Sophie's Choice by William Styron (1980) The World According to Garp by John Irving (1980) Plains Song: For Female Voices by Wright Morris (1981) The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (1981) Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (1982) So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell (1982) The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1983) The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty (1983) Victory Over Japan by Ellen Gilchrist (1984) White Noise by Don DeLillo (1985) World's Fair by E. L. Doctorow (1986) Paco's Story by Larry Heinemann (1987) Paris Trout by Pete Dexter (1988) Spartina by John Casey (1989) Middle Passage by Charles Johnson (1990) Mating by Norman Rush (1991) All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (1992) The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (1993) A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis (1994) Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth (1995) Ship Fever and Other Stories by Andrea Barrett (1996) Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (1997) Charming Billy by Alice McDermott (1998) Waiting by Ha Jin (1999) Complete list (1950–1974) (1975–1999) (2000–2024) v t e National Medal of Arts recipients (1990s) 1990 George Abbott Hume Cronyn Jessica Tandy Merce Cunningham Jasper Johns Jacob Lawrence Riley "B.B." King David Lloyd Kreeger Harris & Carroll Sterling Masterson Ian McHarg Beverly Sills Southeastern Bell Corporation 1991 Maurice Abravanel Roy Acuff Pietro Belluschi John Carter Brown III Charles "Honi" Coles John Crosby Richard Diebenkorn R. Philip Hanes Kitty Carlisle Hart Pearl Primus Isaac Stern Texaco 1992 Marilyn Horne James Earl Jones Allan Houser Minnie Pearl Robert Saudek Earl Scruggs Robert Shaw Billy Taylor Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown Robert Wise AT&T Lila Wallace 1993 Walter and Leonore Annenberg Cabell "Cab" Calloway Ray Charles Bess Lomax Hawes Stanley Kunitz Robert Merrill Arthur Miller Robert Rauschenberg Lloyd Richards William Styron Paul Taylor Billy Wilder 1994 Harry Belafonte Dave Brubeck Celia Cruz Dorothy DeLay Julie Harris Erick Hawkins Gene Kelly Pete Seeger Catherine Filene Shouse Wayne Thiebaud Richard Wilbur Young Audiences 1995 Licia Albanese Gwendolyn Brooks B. Gerald and Iris Cantor Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee David Diamond James Ingo Freed Bob Hope Roy Lichtenstein Arthur Mitchell Bill Monroe Urban Gateways 1996 Edward Albee Sarah Caldwell Harry Callahan Zelda Fichandler Eduardo "Lalo" Guerrero Lionel Hampton Bella Lewitzky Vera List Robert Redford Maurice Sendak Stephen Sondheim Boys Choir of Harlem 1997 Louise Bourgeois Betty Carter Agnes Gund Daniel Urban Kiley Angela Lansbury James Levine Tito Puente Jason Robards Edward Villella Doc Watson MacDowell Colony 1998 Jacques d'Amboise Antoine "Fats" Domino Ramblin' Jack Elliott Frank Gehry Barbara Handman Agnes Martin Gregory Peck Roberta Peters Philip Roth Sara Lee Corporation Steppenwolf Theatre Company Gwen Verdon 1999 Irene Diamond Aretha Franklin Michael Graves Odetta Juilliard School Norman Lear Rosetta LeNoire Harvey Lichtenstein Lydia Mendoza George Segal Maria Tallchief Complete list 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s v t e Laureates of the Prince or Princess of Asturias Award for Literature Prince of Asturias Award for Literature 1980s 1981: José Hierro 1982: Miguel Delibes and Gonzalo Torrente Ballester 1983: Juan Rulfo 1984: Pablo García Baena 1985: Ángel González 1986: Mario Vargas Llosa and Rafael Lapesa 1987: Camilo José Cela 1988: Carmen Martín Gaite and José Ángel Valente 1989: Ricardo Gullón 1990s 1990: Arturo Uslar Pietri 1991: The people of Puerto Rico 1992: Francisco Nieva 1993: Claudio Rodríguez 1994: Carlos Fuentes 1995: Carlos Bousoño 1996: Francisco Umbral 1997: Álvaro Mutis 1998: Francisco Ayala 1999: Günter Grass 2000s 2000: Augusto Monterroso 2001: Doris Lessing 2002: Arthur Miller 2003: Fatema Mernissi and Susan Sontag 2004: Claudio Magris 2005: Nélida Piñon 2006: Paul Auster 2007: Amos Oz 2008: Margaret Atwood 2009: Ismail Kadare 2010s 2010: Amin Maalouf 2011: Leonard Cohen 2012: Philip Roth 2013: Antonio Muñoz Molina 2014: John Banville Princess of Asturias Award for Literature 2010s 2015: Leonardo Padura 2016: Richard Ford 2017: Adam Zagajewski 2018: Fred Vargas 2019: Siri Hustvedt 2020s 2020: Anne Carson Literature portal New York City portal Authority control BIBSYS: 90074293 BNE: XX1099522 BNF: cb11922711b (data) CANTIC: a10870817 CiNii: DA00213114 GND: 118803433 ICCU: IT\ICCU\CFIV\009760 ISNI: 0000 0001 2283 4557 LCCN: n79125808 MBA: 79cb3e3b-961c-43da-917b-2dae9df9a880 NARA: 10580818 NDL: 00454781 NKC: jn19990007178 NLA: 35464411 NLK: KAC199623571 NLP: A24994030 NTA: 068806345 PLWABN: 9810664151805606 SELIBR: 222735 SNAC: w66z0133 SUDOC: 02711015X Trove: 962434 VIAF: 100235370 WorldCat Identities: lccn-n79125808 ^ Simic, Charles. 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