As per our current Database, Philip Roth is still alive (as per Wikipedia, Last update: May 10, 2020).
Currently, Philip Roth is 91 years, 8 months and 2 days old. Philip Roth will celebrate 92rd birthday on a Wednesday 19th of March 2025. Below we countdown to Philip Roth upcoming birthday.
| Popular As | Philip Roth |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Age | 91 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Pisces |
| Born | March 19, 1933 (New Jersey) |
| Birthday | March 19 |
| Town/City | New Jersey |
| Nationality | New Jersey |
Philip Roth’s zodiac sign is Pisces. According to astrologers, Pisces are very friendly, so they often find themselves in a company of very different people. Pisces are selfless, they are always willing to help others, without hoping to get anything back. Pisces is a Water sign and as such this zodiac sign is characterized by empathy and expressed emotional capacity.
Philip Roth was born in the Year of the Rooster. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Rooster are practical, resourceful, observant, analytical, straightforward, trusting, honest, perfectionists, neat and conservative. Compatible with Ox or Snake.
A Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author, he is best known for works such as Goodbye, Columbus (1959), Portnoy's Complaint (1969), American Pastoral (1997), and The Human Stain (2000). In 2001, he became the first ever recipient of the Franz Kafka Prize.
He graduated from Bucknell University and subsequently earned a Master's degree in English literature from the University of Chicago. He published his debut novella, Goodbye, Columbus, in 1959.
His 1997 novel, American Pastoral, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
He had two brief marriages. His first, to Margaret Martinson Williams, lasted from 1959-1963; his second, to Claire Bloom, spanned the first four years of the 1990s.
He was inspired to write after meeting Saul Bellow in 1956.
