Philip Roth

Person · Open Library

Born

1933

Died

2018

Works

365

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1933-03-19

Active to

2018-05-22

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

684

Total plays

13,920

Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933) is an American novelist. He gained fame with the 1959 novella Goodbye, Columbus, and has since become one of the most honored authors of his generation: Roth's books have twice been awarded the National Book Award, twice the National Book Critics Circle award, and three times the PEN/Faulkner Award. He received a Pulitzer Prize for his 1997 novel, American Pastoral, which featured his best known character, Nathan Zuckerman, the subject of many other of Ro

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Common method biases in behavioral research: A critical review of the literature and recommended remedies.

   · 2003 · cited 67,662x

2. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,776x

3. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2020 · cited 15,955x

4. Ordered mesoporous molecular sieves synthesized by a liquid-crystal template mechanism

   · 1992 · cited 14,884x

5. The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship

   · 2016 · cited 14,615x

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Quotes

• “The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.”
• “When you publish a book, it’s the world’s book. The world edits it.”
• “To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver.”
• “This indictment is a kind of fever that flares up from time to time. It flared up after "Defender of the Faith," again after "Goodbye Columbus," and understandably it went way up — to about 107 — after "Portnoy's Complaint." Now there's just a low-grade fever running, nothing to worry about.”
• “I write fiction and I’m told it’s autobiography, I write autobiography and I’m told it’s fiction, so since I’m so dim and they’re so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn’t.”
• “I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you — it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.”

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