Philip Roth (The Sixties in America)

Early Life

Roth was born into a lower-middle-class Jewish family, and his memories of the social stratification of his home have found their way into his fiction. He attended Rutgers University and in 1954 received his bachelor’s degree from Bucknell University and the next year his master’s degree from the University of Chicago. From 1956 to 1957, he studied at the University of Chicago, and some of those experiences were transformed into his second novel, Letting Go (1962). His writing career began with the publication of Goodbye, Columbus (1959), a novella...

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