Order of Philip Roth Books

Philip Roth was a Pulitzer Prize-winning author renowned for his Nathan Zuckerman series. He wrote American Pastoral in 1997, which earned him the Pulitzer Prize. In 2001, he received the inaugural Franz Kafka Prize, an international literary honor. Additionally, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts by the White House. Roth also authored The Plot Against America, an alternate history novel that was adapted into an HBO television series. Born in 1933 in Newark, New Jersey, a city that frequently appeared in his works, he grew up in the area. He attended Rutgers University and Bucknell University, where he obtained a B.A. in English, before earning an M.A. in English literature from the University of Chicago. Roth passed away in 2018.