Philip Roth, the prolific, protean, and blackly comic novelist who was a pre-eminent figure in 20th-century literature died on Tuesday night at a hospital in Manhattan at the age of 85.
Philip Roth died of congestive heart failure. In Roth’s lifetime, he had homes in Manhattan and Connecticut.
In the course of a very long career, he took on many guises, mainly versions of himself in the exploration of what it means to be an American, a Jew, a writer and a man.
He was a champion of Eastern European novelists like Ivan Klima and Bruno Schulz, and also a passionate student of American history and the American vernacular. And more than just about any other writer of his time, he was tireless in his exploration of male sexuality.
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He won several awards including two National Book Awards, two National Book Critics Circle awards, three PEN/Faulkner Awards, a Pulitzer Prize and the Man Booker International Prize.
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