Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1933. He was educated at Bucknell university and the university of Chicago. He began his career with Goodlrye, Columbus, winner of the national book award for fiction in 1960, in 1987 he won the national book critics circle award for his novel The Counter life. With his last three books, each of them published in the 1990s, Roth has won three major American literary awards. For Patrimony, he won the national book ...
