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Philip Roth was a 20th-century American novelist. Philip Milton Roth was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "sensual, ingenious style" and for its provocative explorations of Jewish and American identity. Read more on Wikipedia →

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“Doctor doctor, what do you say, lets put the id back in yid”
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“yEvery man's endeavor was imbued with responsibility”
— Philip Roth
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