Roth, Philip
Roth, Philip ( 1933 – ),novelist, born in New Jersey, of second-generation Jewish American parentage. His writing career has been combined with various teaching posts in America. His complex relationship with his Jewish background is reflected in most of his works, and his portrayal of contemporary Jewish life has aroused much controversy. His works include Goodbye, Columbus ( 1959 , a novella with five short stories), Letting Go ( 1962 ), and a sequence of novels featuring Nathan Zuckerman, a Jewish novelist who has to learn to contend with success: My Life as a Man ( 1974 ), The Ghost Writer ( 1979 ), Zuckerman Unbound ( 1981 ), The Anatomy Lesson ( 1983 ), and The Prague Orgy ( 1985 ). He remains best known for Portnoy's Complaint ( 1969 ), which records its protagonist's confessions to his psychiatrist, and is remembered as a succës de scandale, but Roth's...
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