ia pertama kali mendapatkan sambutan dengan novella 1959 goodbye, columbus, sebuah gambaran ireveren dan humoris dari kehidupan amerika-yahudi yang membuatnya meraih penghargaan buku nasional untuk fiksi as.brauner (2005), pp.437 buku fiksi karya roth, yang biasanya berlatar belakang newark, new jersey, dikenal karena karakter autobiografinya, yang secara filsafat dan formal menyamarkan perbedaan antara kenyataan dan fiksi, karena "gaya supel, ingenious"nya dan karena eksplorasi provokatifnya dari identitas yahudi dan amerika.u.s.
department of state, u.s. life, "american prose, 19451990: realism and experimentation" profilnya berkembang secara signifikan pada 1969 setelah menerbitkan buku kontroversial portnoy's complaint.saxton (1974)
roth adalah salah satu penulis as yang paling banyak mendapatkan penghargaan pada generasinya: buku-bukunya dua kali meraih penghargaan buku nasional, dua kali meraih penghargaan lingkaran kritikus buku nasional, dan tiga kali meraih penghargaan pen/faulkner.
ia meraih penghargaan pulitzer untuk novel 1997nya, american pastoral, yang menampilkan salah satu dari karakter terkenalnya, nathan zuckerman, subyek dari beberapa novel roth yang lain.
the human stain (2000), novel zuckerman lainnya, yang meraih penghargaan sastra wh smith di britania raya untuk buku terbaik tahun ini.
pada 2001, roth mendapatkan penghargaan franz kafka.
philip roth tumbuh di wilayah weequahic di newark, new jersey, sebagai anak kedua dari
bess (ne finkel) dan herman roth, up society's ass, copper: rereading philip roth  mark shechner  google books generasi pertama orangtua amerika, yahudi keturunan galisia.
ia lulus dari sekolah tinggi weequahic di newark pada atau sekitar 1950.lubasch, arnold h. "philip roth shakes weequahic high", the new york times, 28 februari 1969.
diakses pada 8 september 2007
penghargaan dan penghormatan
pada 19 maret 2013, ulang tahun ke-80 roth dirayakan dalam acara-acara publik di museum newark.
lima novel dan cerita pendek philip roth diadaptasi menjadi film: goodbye, columbus; portnoy's complaint; the human stain; the dying animal, yang diadaptasi menjadi film elegy; dan the humbling.
the ghost writer (1979)
zuckerman unbound (1981)
the anatomy lesson (1983)
the prague orgy (1985)
(empat buku diatas dikumpulkan dengan nama zuckerman bound)
the counterlife (1986)
american pastoral (1997)
i married a communist (1998)
the human stain (2000)
exit ghost (2007)
the breast (1972)
the professor of desire (1977)
the dying animal (2001)
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)
deception: a novel (1990)
operation shylock: a confession (1993)
sabbath's theater (1995)
the plot against america (2004)
the humbling (2009)
the facts: a novelist's autobiography (1988)
patrimony: a true story (1991)
reading myself and others (1976)
a philip roth reader (1980, edisi yang direvii 1993)
shop talk (2001)
edisi definitif perpustakaan amerika dari kumpulan karya buatan philip roth (200513)
brauner, david (1969) getting in your retaliation first: narrative strategies in portnoy's complaint in royal, derek parker (2005) philip roth: new perspectives on an american author, chapter 3
saxton, martha (1974) philip roth talks about his own work literary guild june 1974, n.2.
also published in philip roth, george john searles (1992) conversations with philip roth p. 78
bacaan tambahan kritisisme sastra
balint, benjamin, " philip roth's counterlives," books &
ideas, may 5, 2014.
bloom, harold, ed., modern critical views of philip roth, chelsea house, new york, 2003.
bloom, harold and welsch, gabe, eds., modern critical interpretations of philip roth's portnoy's complaint, chelsea house, 2003.
cooper, alan, philip roth and the jews (suny series in modern jewish literature and culture), suny press, albany, ny, 1996.
finkielkraut, alain, "la plaisanterie" (on the human stain), in un coeur intelligent, paris: stock/flammarion, 2009.
finkielkraut, alain, "la complainte du dsamour" (on the professor of desire), in et si l'amour durait paris: stock, 2011.
kinzel, till, die tragdie und komdie des amerikanischen lebens.
eine studie zu zuckermans amerika in philip roths amerika-trilogie (american studies monograph series), heidelberg: winter, 2006.
milowitz, steven, philip roth considered: the concentrationary universe of the american writer, routledge, new york, 2000.
morley, catherine, the quest for epic in contemporary american literature, routledge, new york, 2008.
parrish, timothy, ed., the cambridge companion to philip roth, cambridge university press, cambridge, 2007.
pierpont, claudia roth "roth unbound: a writer and his books" farrar, straus and giroux, 2013.
podhoretz, norman, "the adventures of philip roth," commentary (october 1998), reprinted as "philip roth, then and now" in the norman podhoretz reader, 2004.
posnock, ross, philip roth's rude truth: the art of immaturity, princeton university press, princeton, new jersey, 2006.
royal, derek parker, philip roth: new perspectives on an american author, praeger publishers, santa barbara, ca, 2005.
safer, elaine b., mocking the age: the later novels of philip roth (suny series in modern jewish literature and culture), suny press, albany, ny, 2006.
searles, george j., ed., conversations with philip roth, university of mississippi press, jackson, mississippi, 1992.
searles, george j., the fiction of philip roth and john updike, southern illinois university press, carbondale, illinois, 1984.
shostak, debra b., philip roth: countertexts, counterlives, university of south carolina press, columbia, sc, 2004.
simic, charles, " the nicest boy in the world," the new york review of books, vol.
lv, no. october 15, 9 2008.
swirski, peter, "it can't happen here, or politics, emotions, and philip roth's the plot against america."
american utopia and social engineering in literature, social thought, and political history.
new york, routledge, 2011.
wltje, wiebke-maria, my finger on the pulse of the nation.
intellektuelle protagonisten im romanwerk philip roths (mosaic, 26), trier: wvt, 2006.
literary encyclopedia biography
the philip roth society
philip roth looks back on a legendary career, and forward to his final act
american master's philip roth: unmasked.
web of stories online video archive: roth talks about his life and work in great depth and detail.
recorded in nyc, march 2011
wawancara roth  dari "fresh air" di npr, september 2005
wawancara roth  dari the guardian, december 2005
wawancara roth  dari open source
wawancara roth  dari der spiegel, februari 2008
wawancara roth  dari times london, 17 oktober 2009
wawancara roth  dari writers and company di cbc. disiarkan pada 2009-11-01
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