Philip Roth  

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Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) was an American novelist.

Roth's fiction, regularly set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey, is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "supple, ingenious style" and for its provocative explorations of American identity.

List of works

Novels

Zuckerman

• The Ghost Writer (1979)
• Zuckerman Unbound (1981)
• The Anatomy Lesson (1983)
• The Prague Orgy (1985)

(The above four books are collected as Zuckerman Bound)

• The Counterlife (1986)
• American Pastoral (1997)
• I Married a Communist (1998)
• The Human Stain (2000)
• Exit Ghost (2007)

Roth

• Novotny's Pain (1980), published by Sylvester & Orphanos
• The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography (1988)
• Deception: A Novel (1990)
• Patrimony: A True Story (1991)
• Operation Shylock: A Confession (1993)
• The Plot Against America (2004)

Kepesh

• The Breast (1972)
• The Professor of Desire (1977)
• The Dying Animal (2001)

Nemeses

• Everyman (2006)
• Indignation (2008)
• The Humbling (2009)
• Nemesis (2010)

Other

• Goodbye, Columbus (1959)
• Letting Go (1962)
• When She Was Good (1967)
• Portnoy's Complaint (1969)
• Our Gang (1971)
• The Great American Novel (1973)
• My Life as a Man (1974)
• Sabbath's Theater (1995)

Collections

• Reading Myself and Others (1976)
• A Philip Roth Reader (1980, revised edition 1993)
• Shop Talk (2001)
• The Library of America's definitive edition of Philip Roth's collected works (2005–17)