The Human Stain
By the mid-1990s, though, Roth tamped down on the self-referentiality. He reintroduced Zuckerman as witness and narrator in a trilogy of historical novels: "American Pastoral" (1997), "I Married a Communist" (1998), and "The Human Stain" (2000), set in the period from the 1960s into the 1990s. The British Indian author Salman Rushdie used Zuckerman as a character in his novel "The Ground Beneath Her Feet" (1999), where in an alternate universe, it is the literary alter-egos (and their novels) that are real.