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Philip Roth

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Born
1933

Died
2018

Publications
Novels, stories

Writing languages
English

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Literature

Portnoy's Complaint (1969)

American Pastoral (1997)

The Human Stain (2000)

Novels

Portnoy's Complaint (1969)

American Pastoral (1997)

The Human Stain (2000)

Novellas

Goodbye, Columbus (1959)

Stories

"Defender of the Faith" (1959)

• "Novotny's Pain" (1962)

Story Collections

Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories (1959)

American Literature

Goodbye, Columbus (1959)

Portnoy's Complaint (1969)

American Pastoral (1997)

The Human Stain (2000)

The Plot Against America (2004)

Alternate History

The Plot Against America (2004)

Literary Fiction

Portnoy's Complaint (1969)

American Pastoral (1997)

The Human Stain (2000)

The Plot Against America (2004)

Works published in book form

Goodbye, Columbus, novella and story collection, 1959

Goodbye, Columbus, ""The Conversion of the Jews", "Defender of the Faith", "Epstein", "You Can't Tell a Man by the Song He Sings", "Eli, the Fanatic"

Letting Go, novel, 1962

When She Was Good, novel, 1967

Portnoy's Complaint, novel, 1969

The Breast, novel, 1972

The Great American Novel, novel, 1973

My Life as a Man, novel, 1974

Reading Myself and Others, criticism, 1976

The Professor of Desire, novel, 1977

The Ghost Writer, novel, 1979

A Philip Roth Reader, novel excerpts and story collection, 1980

Including stories "Novotny's Pain", "Looking at Kafka"

Zuckerman Unbound, novel, 1981

The Anatomy Lesson, novel, 1983

The Prague Orgy, novella, 1985

The Counterlife, novel, 1986

The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography, memoir, 1988

Deception: A Novel, novel, 1990

Patrimony: A True Story, memoir, 1991

Operation Shylock: A Confession, novel, 1993

Sabbath's Theater, novel, 1995

American Pastoral, novel, 1997

I Married a Communist, novel, 1998

The Human Stain, novel, 2000

The Dying Animal, novel, 2001

Shop Talk: A Writer and His Colleagues and Their Work, interviews with writers, 2001

The Plot Against America, novel, 2004

Everyman, novel, 2006

Exit Ghost, novel, 2007

Indignation, novel, 2008

The Humbling, novel, 2009

Nemesis, novel, 2010

 

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