Novelist Philip Roth

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Novelist

Philip Roth

Living place: New Jersey

Birthday: 19-3-1933 (91 years old)

Population of US 1933: 125,578,763

Global rank: #59311

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Who is Novelist Philip Roth?
A Pulitzer Prize-winning and National Book Award-winning author, he is known for such works as Goodbye, Columbus (1959), Portnoy's Complaints (1969), American Pastoral (1997), and The Human Stain (2000). In 2001, he became the first ever recipient of the Franz Kafka Prize.
His 1997 novel, American Pastoral, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He graduated from Bucknell University and later earned a Master's degree in English Literature from the University of Chicago. He published his debut novel, Goodbye, Columbus, in 1959.

Family life info

He had two brief marriages. His first, for Margaret Martinson Williams, lasted from 1959-1963; His second, to Claire Bloom, spanned the first four years of the 1990s.

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Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Novelist Philip Roth?
He was inspired to write after meeting Saul Bellow in 1956.

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When was Novelist Philip Roth born?
Philip Roth birthday 19-3-1933 (at the age of 91).
Where is Novelist Philip Roth's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Philip Roth was born in New Jersey, . is a Novelist, whose Zodiac is Pisces, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Rooster. Philip Roth's global rank is 59311 and whose rank is 521 in list of famous Novelist. Population of US in 1933 is about 125,578,763 persons.
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Events in 1933 and 19-3

Events in US in the birth year of Philip Roth

  • Giuseppe Zangara executed for attempted assassination of President-elect Roosevelt in which Chicago Mayor Cermak is fatally shot. Background: Assassinations and Attempts in U.S. Since 1865
  • Roosevelt inaugurated (“the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”); launches New Deal.
  • Prohibition repealed. Background: Amendments to the Constitution of the United States
  • Glass-Steagall Act bans banks from dealing in stocks and bonds.

Birthday Philip Roth (19-3) in history

  • Day 19-3 year 1853: During the Taiping Rebellion in China, the rebels captured Nanking and renamed it T'en-ching (Heavenly Capital).
  • Day 19-3 year 1920: The United States Senate voted down signing the Treaty of Versailles for the second time.
  • Day 19-3 year 1931: Nevada state legislature legalized gambling.
  • Day 19-3 year 1953: The Academy Awards were first televised.
  • Day 19-3 year 1996: Sarajevo became a united city again after four years when Moslem-Croat authorities took control of the last district held by Serbs.
  • Day 19-3 year 2003: Mahmoud Abbas became prime minister of Palestine. He would later succeed Yasir Arafat as head of the PLO and president of the Palestinian Authority.
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