Philip Roth

Philip Roth was an American novelist who is one of the most acclaimed and controversial writers of the twentieth century. Born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1933, he won virtually every major American literary prize, including the Pulitzer Prize. He was a perennial candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. American Pastoral is his masterpiece — a devastating novel about a successful Jewish-American businessman whose life is destroyed when his daughter becomes a political radical during the Vietnam era. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize and is widely regarded as one of the greatest American novels of the twentieth century. Roth died in 2018. His audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers some of the most powerful, ambitious American fiction of the twentieth century — novels that lay bare the American dream and the American nightmare.