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Philip Roth Dies: Pulitzer Prize Winning ‘American Pastoral’ Author Was 85

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Philip Roth died from congestive heart failure on Tuesday in a Manhattan hospital, according to the New York Times. He was 85. Roth was born in Newark, N.J. and attended Rutgers University and later transferred to Bucknell University. After receiving an M.A. in English literature from the University of Chicago, his first story was published in The New Yorker in 1958. His first collection of short stories titled Goodbye, Columbus was…

 

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