The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiograhpy: A Novelist's Autobiography - Softcover

Roth, Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014011405X ISBN 13: 9780140114058

Publisher: Penguin, 1989

Synopsis

In his autobiography, Philip Roth reveals the facts about his life, his education, his work on various university faculties, his membership of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and his writings. His first book, "Goodbye Columbus" won the US National Book Award for Fiction.

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About the Author

In 1997 Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction. He has twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians’ Prize for “the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003-2004.” Recently Roth received PEN’s two most prestigious awards: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. Roth is the only living American novelist to have his work published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of America. In 2011 he received the National Humanities Medal at the White House, and was later named the fourth recipient of the Man Booker International Prize.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 014011405X
• ISBN 13: 9780140114058
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208