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7 unusual facts about Philip Roth


1942 World Series

This World Series was used as a background for the plot endings in Philip Roth's 2004 novel The Plot Against America.

Jacque Mercer

She is mentioned (usually by title, once by name) several times in the 1997 Philip Roth novel, American Pastoral.

The Counterlife

The Counterlife (1986) is a novel by the American author Philip Roth.

The Professor of Desire

The Professor of Desire is a 1977 novel by Philip Roth.

When She Was Good

When She Was Good (1967) is Philip Roth's only novel with a female protagonist, Lucy Nelson.

Zuckerman Bound

Zuckerman Bound is a trilogy of novels by Philip Roth, originally published in 1985.

Zuckerman Unbound

Zuckerman Unbound is a 1981 novel by the American author Philip Roth.


American Berserk

According to Adams, “the title, from Philip Roth, hints at the darker, manic edge of American life evoked in his novel, American Pastoral.

André Deutsch

His small but influential publishing house ran until the 1980s, and included books by Jack Kerouac, Earl Lovelace, Norman Mailer, George Mikes, V. S. Naipaul, Ogden Nash, Andrew Robinson, Philip Roth, Art Spiegelman, John Updike, Margaret Atwood, Charles Gidley Wheeler and Helene Hanff, and is now an imprint of Carlton Publishing Group.

David Lagercrantz

In Financial Times, Simon Kuper compared the biography to Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint and drew parallels between the main characters' experiences as minority members and outsiders struggling for recognition and acceptance in mainstream society, calling it "The best footballer’s autobiography of recent years".

David Rieff

He finally ended up at Princeton University, where he graduated with an A.B. in 1978, and was a Senior Editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux from 1978 to 1989, working with such authors as Joseph Brodsky, Elias Canetti, Carlos Fuentes, Alberto Moravia, Les Murray, Philip Roth, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Marguerite Yourcenar.

Death of Antonio Calvo

Writers in Spain have observed that Calvo's story bears similarities to a number of academic novels, including Philip Roth's The Human Stain.

Diana Athill

After the war Athill helped André Deutsch establish his publishing company and worked closely with many of his authors, including Philip Roth, Norman Mailer, John Updike, Mordecai Richler, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean Rhys, Gitta Sereny, Brian Moore, V. S. Naipaul, Charles Gidley Wheeler and David Gurr.

Irina Petraș

Petraş has also translated from English and French into Romanian (Henry James, Marcel Moreau, Jacques De Decker, Jean-Luc Outers, Michel Haar, G.K. Chesterton, D.H. Lawrence, Guy de Maupassant, Anatole France, Mac Linscott Ricketts, Philip Roth, Michel Lambert, Philippe Jones etc.)

Jewish American literature

It reached some of its most mature expression in the 20th century "Jewish American novels" by Saul Bellow, J. D. Salinger, Norman Mailer, Bernard Malamud, Chaim Potok, and Philip Roth.

Jonathan Littell

Littell reportedly beat tough competition for that year's honours, with Philip Roth and Nick Cave among the writers filling out the short list.

Kaddish

In Philip Roth's novel The Human Stain, the narrator states that the Mourner's Kaddish signifies that "a Jew is dead. Another Jew is dead. As though death were not a consequence of life but a consequence of having been a Jew."

Kathleen Crowley

In the Philip Roth novel American Pastoral, the protagonist marries Miss New Jersey 1949.

Lauri Pilter

His translations into Estonian include two novels by Philip Roth, The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy, the chapter "Waiting for Glory" from the novel The Web and the Rock and the novella The Lost Boy by Thomas Wolfe, and Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain.

Melvin Tumin

The author Philip Roth, a friend of Tumin, said that his novel The Human Stain (2000) was inspired by an incident that happened to the professor.

Norman Manea

Important contemporary writers expressed admiration of the author’s literary work and his moral stand before and after the collapse of communism: the Nobel laureates Heinrich Böll, Günter Grass, Octavio Paz, Orhan Pamuk, as well as Philip Roth, Claudio Magris, Antonio Tabucchi, E. M. Cioran, Antonio Munoz Molina, Cynthia Ozick, Louis Begley and others.

Richard Bentall

The paper was mentioned on the satirical television program Have I Got News for You and quoted by the novelist Philip Roth in his novel Sabbath's Theater.

Richard G. Stern

Stern has been praised by many of the great writers and critics of the last fifty years, among them Anthony Burgess, Flannery O'Connor, Howard Nemerov, Thomas Berger, Hugh Kenner, Sven Birkerts, and Richard Ellmann, as well as his close friends Tom Rogers, Saul Bellow, Donald Justice, and Philip Roth (see Stern's forthcoming essay "Glimpse, Encounter, Acquaintance, Friendship" in Sewanee Review, Winter 2009).

Roger Williams Straus, Jr.

His dedication to the publishing business earned him several Nobel Prize-winning authors, including Isaac Bashevis Singer, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Brodsky, Nadine Gordimer, Czesław Miłosz and T. S. Eliot, and Pulitzer Prize authors such as Robert Lowell, John McPhee, Philip Roth, and Bernard Malamud.

Vintage Classics

Vintage is now a paperback publisher of contemporary fiction and non-fiction, publishing writers such as Philip Roth, Ian McEwan, Richard Yates, Willa Cather, Martin Amis and Toni Morrison.


see also

Operation Shylock

The novel follows narrator "Philip Roth" on a journey to Israel, where he attends the trial of accused war criminal John Demjanjuk and becomes involved in an intelligence mission—the "Operation Shylock" of the title.