The famous American writer Philip Roth died in new York on Tuesday, may 22, at the age of 85 years.
According to his literary agent, Andrew Wylie, the cause of death was acute heart failure.
Philip Roth is the author of over 30 books, winner of the Pulitzer prize (1998) and the International man Booker prize (2011). The most famous novels of the Company are considered to be «the Case of the Tailor» and «the Plot against America», describing a country with a fascist regime, which forced the pilot Charles Lindbergh, Roosevelt won the election of 1940. Pulitzer prize Philip Roth received the»American pastoral» about the life of the 1960-ies in new Jersey.
Philip Milton Roth born March 19, 1933 in Newark (state of new Jersey) in the family of Jewish immigrants from Galicia. The son of an insurance agent, Roth received a bachelor’s degree at Bucknell University and a master’s degree in English at the University of Chicago.
The writer was a long-term relationship with British actress Claire bloom, but their five-year marriage ended in divorce in 1995.
The mouth was considered a difficult writer for interviewers — he didn’t like to discuss their books. «You should let people fight with the history in the book alone. This will help them again and again to understand who they are and what it represents», said Philip Roth.
