Philip Roth
Biography
Philip Milton Roth was a renowned American novelist and short-story writer, known for his intensely autobiographical fiction that blurred reality and fiction. His breakthrough came with the 1959 collection Goodbye, Columbus, which won the US National Book Award, followed by the bestseller Portnoy's Complaint in 1969. Roth received numerous prestigious awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral, and was recognized as one of the most honored American writers of his generation.