WRITER

Philip Roth

1933 - 2018

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Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "sensual, ingenious style" and for its provocative explorations of American identity. He first gained attention with the 1959 short story collection Goodbye, Columbus, which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Philip Roth has received more than 4,817,345 page views. His biography is available in 75 different languages on Wikipedia. Philip Roth is the 428th most popular writer (down from 337th in 2019), the 406th most popular biography from United States (down from 315th in 2019) and the 39th most popular American Writer.

Philip Roth is most famous for his novel Portnoy's Complaint, which is about a Jewish man who is sexually frustrated and has an obsession with his mother.

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  • 75

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  • 4.69

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Notable Works

My life as a man
1974
Sabbath's theater
1995
The professor of desire
1977
Portnoy's Complaint
1969
The Ghost Writer
1979

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Philip Roth ranks 428 out of 7,302. Before him are Lactantius, Constantine P. Cavafy, Seneca the Elder, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Nadine Gordimer, and Vladimir Vysotsky. After him are William of Rubruck, Phaedrus, Andrzej Sapkowski, Frank Herbert, Hector Malot, and Al-Maʿarri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Philip Roth ranks 20. Before him are James Brown, Just Fontaine, Corazon Aquino, Nina Simone, Amartya Sen, and Heinrich Rohrer. After him are Susan Sontag, Mako, Elinor Ostrom, Francisco Gento, Arno Allan Penzias, and Jayne Mansfield. Among people deceased in 2018, Philip Roth ranks 15. Before him are Stan Lee, Bernardo Bertolucci, Miloš Forman, Amos Oz, Isao Takahata, and John McCain. After him are Stephen Hillenburg, France Gall, Paul Bocuse, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Peter Grünberg, and Hubert de Givenchy.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Philip Roth ranks 406 out of 20,380. Before him are Michelle Pfeiffer (1958), Sarah Palin (1964), James Hong (1929), Man Ray (1890), Florence Foster Jenkins (1868), and Sarah Vaughan (1924). After him are Billie Holiday (1915), Frank Herbert (1920), Prince (1958), Jack Ruby (1911), Paul Tibbets (1915), and Willis Carrier (1876).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Philip Roth ranks 39. Before him are Paul Auster (1947), O. Henry (1862), Raymond Chandler (1888), Henry James (1843), Dan Brown (1964), and Sylvia Plath (1932). After him are Frank Herbert (1920), Kurt Vonnegut (1922), Susan Sontag (1933), Jack Kerouac (1922), Eugene O'Neill (1888), and Patricia Highsmith (1921).

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