Writing · Novel · Writer · Story
Born Mar 19, 1933 · Newark, New Jersey, USA
Active 1955–2018 · Awards: Guggenheim Fellowship, National Medal of Arts, National Humanities Medal, Franz Kafka Prize, Princess of Asturias Literary Prize, National Book Award for Fiction, PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, National Book Award for Fiction
Philip Milton Roth was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the…