Philip Roth
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Emerging from Newark's Weequahic neighborhood, Roth pursued English studies at Bucknell and earned a master’s at the University of Chicago before a long tenure teaching comparative literature at the University of Pennsylvania. His literary breakthrough arrived with the 1959 collection Goodbye, Columbus, which secured the National Book Award, and the 1970 bestseller Portnoy’s Complaint propelled hi…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources