Phillip Roth

Witty and ironic fiction of noted American writer Philip Milton Roth includes the novels

Portnoy's Complaint

(1969),

American Pastoral

(1997), and

The Human Stain

(2000).

He gained early literary fame with the collection

Goodbye, Columbus

(1959), winner of National Book Award of 1960, cemented this fame with his bestseller, and continued to write critically-acclaimed works, many of which feature his fictional alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman. The novels of Zuckerman began with

The Ghost Writer

in 1979 and include winner of the Pulitzer Prize. In May 2011, he won the Man Booker International Prize for lifetime achievement in fiction.

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