7 Philip Roth Quotes Full of Truth

American Novelist Philip Milton Roth was born on the 19th March 1933.

Roth’s work, influenced by the likes of John Updike, William Faulkner and Franz Kafka, is mainly semi-autobiographical and set in his birthplace, Newark, New Jersey.

One of the most awarded novelists of his generation, Roth won the Pulitzer Prize in 1997 for his novel American Pastoral (US – UK). This has since been made in to a film starring Ewan McGregor, Jennifer Connelly and Dakota Fanning, joining the list of seven of his other works that have also been adapted for the big screen.

At 85, Roth is now retired from writing, living a peaceful and healthy life on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.