Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1933. He received his B.A. in 1954 from Bucknell University, and a year later received an M.A. from the University of Chicago. His stories have appeared in *Harper's, The New Yorker, Esquire, Commentary, Paris Review*, and other magazines; in 1959 his first book, *Goodbye, Columbus*, was published, and was awarded the National Book Award for Fiction for 1960. In the same year, Mr. Roth received a Guggenheim grant, and a grant from the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He has since written a number of novels, including *Letting Go, When She Was Good, Portnoy's Complaint*, and *The Professor of Desire*.

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When *Goodbye, Columbus* was first published, the *New York Times* hailed Philip Roth as "a good story-teller, a shrewd appraiser of character, and a keen recorder of an indecisive generation." First- and second-generation Jews, faced with the loss of their identity in America, are Roth's focus in the novella and five short stories collected here, all of which have the "style and the outrageousness of life itself" (*Time*).