Philip Roth, Award-Winning Novelist Who Explored Jewish Culture, Dies at 85
- His fiction won two National Book Awards and Pulitzer Prize
- ‘Portnoy’s Complaint’ brought him into national consciousness
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Philip Roth, who charted post-World War II America in self-referential literary novels with themes of sex, politics and secular Judaism, has died. He was 85.
He died Tuesday night at a hospital in Manhattan, according to the New York Times, citing Judith Thurman, a close friend. The cause was congestive heart failure. He lived in Manhattan and Connecticut.