Philip Roth

Novelist

Birthday March 19, 1933

Birth Sign Pisces

Birthplace New Jersey

DEATH DATE May 22, 2018 (85)

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Numerology: 2

About

Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author known for works such as Goodbye, Columbus, Portnoy's Complaint, American Pastoral, and The Human Stain. In 2001, he became the first ever recipient of the Franz Kafka Prize.

Before Fame

He graduated from Bucknell University and subsequently earned a Master's degree in English literature from the University of Chicago. He published his debut novella, Goodbye, Columbus, in 1959.

Trivia

His 1997 novel American Pastoral won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Family Life

He had two brief marriages. His first, to Margaret Martinson Williams, lasted from 1959-1963; his second, to Claire Bloom, spanned the first four years of the 1990s.

Associated With

He was inspired to write after meeting Saul Bellow in 1956.

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