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Philip RothPhilip Roth was born in 1933 in Newark, New Jersey, and was brought up there. He received a B.A from Bucknell University, and an M.A. in English from the University of Chicago. He then spent two more years at Chicago, teaching and pursuing further graduate studies. His first book, Goodbye, Columbus, was published in 1959 and received the National Book Award, the first of many literary prizes including another National Book Award (for Sabbath's Theater), the National Book Critics Circle Award (for Patrimony and The Counterlife), the PEN/Faulkner Award (for Operation Shylock) and the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for American Pastoral.After many years of teaching comparative literature--mostly at the University of Pennsylvania--Roth retired from teaching as Distinguished Professor of Literature at New York's Hunter College in 1992. Until 1989, he was General Editor of the Penguin book series "Writers from the Other Europe," which he inaugurated in 1974 and which introduced the work of Bruno Schulz and Milan Kundera to an American audience. His lengthy interviews with foreign writers--among them Primo Levi, Ivan Klima, and Aharon Appelfeld--have appeared in the New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, and the New York Times Book Review. Roth has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1970.
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