A man who's discontents were barely known to himself, awakening in middle age to the horror of self-reflection.
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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 →