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(1933-2018) Novelist. Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey, and died in Manhattan, New York. He was a winner of two National Book Awards, two National Book Critics Circle awards, three PEN / Faulkner Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, and the Man Booker International Prize.

Full Name

Philip Roth

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


1933

BIRTH

Philip Milton Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey, on March 19, 1933.

1960

LITWORK

Goodbye, Columbus, and Five Short Stories
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
0395081386 / 978-0395081389
Collection of short stories.

1962

LITWORK

Letting Go
Random House
039443305X / 978-0394433059
Novel.

1967

LITWORK

When She Was Good
Random House
0394451872 / 978-0394451879
Novel.

1969

LITWORK

Portnoy's Complaint
Random House
0394441982 / 978-0394441986
Novel.

1974

LITWORK

My Life As A Man
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
0030126460 / 978-0030126468
Novel.

1979

LITWORK

The Ghost Writer
Farrar Straus & Giroux
0224017640 / 978-0224017640
Novel.

1981

LITWORK

Zuckerman Unbound
Farrar Straus & Giroux
0374299455 / 978-0374299453
Novel.

1983

LITWORK

The Anatomy Lesson
Farrar Straus & Giroux
0374104913 / 978-0374104917
Novel.

1986

LITWORK

The Counterlife
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
978-0-374-13026-8
Novel.

1988

LITWORK

The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography
Farrar Straus & Giroux
0374152128 / 978-0374152123
Autobiography.

1990

LITWORK

Deception
Simon & Schuster
0671703749 / 978-0671703745
Novel.

1993

LITWORK

Operation Shylock: A Confession
Simon & Schuster
0671703765 / 978-0671703769
Novel.

1995

LITWORK

Sabbath's Theater
Houghton Mifflin
0395739829 / 978-0395739822
Novel, winner of the National Book Award.

1997

LITWORK

American Pastoral
Houghton Mifflin
0224050001 / 978-0224050005
The first book in a trilogy of historical novels.

1998

LITWORK

I Married A Communist
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
0395933463 / 978-0395933466
The second book in a trilogy of historical novels.

2000

LITWORK

The Human Stain
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
0618059458 / 978-0618059454
The third book in a trilogy of historical novels.

2004

LITWORK

The Plot Against America
Houghton Mifflin
0618509283 / 978-0618509287
Novel.

2006

LITWORK

Everyman
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
061873516X / 978-0618735167
Novel.

2007

LITWORK

Exit Ghost
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
0618915478 / 978-0618915477
Novel.

2008

LITWORK

Indignation
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
054705484X / 978-0547054841
Novel.

2009

LITWORK

The Humbling
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade
0547239696 / 978-0547239699
Novel. Adapted by Buck Henry and Michal Zebede for the 2014 film of the same name.

2010

LITWORK

Nemesis
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
0547318359 / 978-0547318356
Novel.

2018

DEATH

Philip Roth died at a hospital in Manhattan, New York, on May 22, 2018.

2018

RESIDENCE

Mr. Roth had a home in Manhattan, New York.

2018

INTERMENT

Mr. Roth was interred at Bard College Cemetery, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.

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