Roth, Philip
Roth, Philip( 1933– ),New Jersey-born author, after graduation from Bucknell and an M.A. from the University of Chicago taught English there and creative writing at Iowa and Princeton. His first book, for which he won a National Book Award, was Goodbye, Columbus (1959), whose title novella and five short stories present witty, ironic, and perceptive depictions of Jewish life in the U.S. in a flip, personal style. Letting Go (1962), his first novel, employs something of the same vein less successfully in treating the lives of young Jewish intellectuals at the University of Chicago, in New York, and elsewhere. His succeeding fiction is When She Was Good (1967), a removal from his basic subject and territory in treating a Midwestern Protestant housewife who is destructively dedicated to reforming first her father, then her husband; Portnoy's Complaint (1969), a wildly comic depiction of his middle-class New York Jewish...
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