Philip Roth: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novelist Dies at 85
May 22, 2018
Philip Roth was an American novelist. Born on March 19, 1933, in Newark, New Jersey, he wrote about Jewish American life.
His works include Goodbye, Columbus, Portnoy's Complaint, American Pastoral, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998, and The Human Stain. He won the National Book Award twice and the Man Booker International Prize in 2011.
He announced his retirement from writing in 2012. Roth died of congestive heart failure in New York City on May 22, 2018, at age 85.
Achievements: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1998), Man Booker International Prize.
Birth: March 19, 1933 - Newark, New Jersey.
Profession: Novelist.
Interesting Facts: He retired from writing in 2012.