Philip Roth won The Man Booker International Prize in 2011. The “prize is awarded every two years to a living author who has published fiction either originally in English or whose work is generally available in translation in the English language.” A description of Roth’s career is below from the Man Booker website along with links to to a selection of his novels available from the Newton Free Library.
“Philip Roth (born March 1933, New Jersey) is an American novelist. He is probably best known for his 1959 collection Goodbye, Columbus, his 1969 novel Portnoy’s Complaint, and for his late-’90s trilogy comprising the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Pastoral (1997), I Married a Communist (1998), and The Human Stain (2000).”
Goodbye, Columbus 1959 – located in Library of America’s Novels & Stories, 1959-1962 by Philip Roth
Letting Go 1962
When She Was Good 1967
Portnoy’s Complaint 1969 – located in Library of America’s Novels & Stories, 1959-1962 by Philip Roth
Our Gang 1971 – located in Library of America’s Novels, 1967-1972 by Philip Roth
The Breast 1972
My Life As a Man 1974
The Ghost Writer 1979
Zuckerman Unbound 1981
The Anatomy Lesson 1983
The Counterlife 1986
Deception 1990
Operation Shylock 1993
Sabbath’s Theater 1995
American Pastoral 1997
The Human Stain 2000
The Dying Animal 2001
Everyman 2006
Exit Ghost 2007
Indignation 2008
The Humbling 2009
Nemesis 2010
