The tragic news had been confirmed by Roth’s literary agent, Andrew Wylie, who announced that the author died on Tuesday night as a result of congestive heart failure.
Roth himself has had a mass amount of success as an author; having won awards from The Pulitzer, The National Book Award and The Man Booker International Prize of 2011.
He is the author of 25 books and some of his influential titles include American Pastoral, The Human Stain and I Married a Communist.
The origins of Roth’s career began in 1950s, where he published a collection of short stories called Goodbye Columbus. In these stories; issues of class, identity and borders were addressed from a Jewish perspective.
The publishing of these stories attracted a fair amount of controversy; with Roth’s opposers labelling him as an anti-Semitic and a “self-hating Jew” as Roth himself was Jewish.
Roth’s career very much strengthened after the 1950s, where he continued to publish admirable novels. The author himself said that he got his inspiration from the cultural values of Jewish family life, sex and the American ideals that were prevalent in his time.
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Roth has had a number of health conditions in the past, both physically and mentally. The author survived a burst appendix in the late 1960s and battled a near-suicidal depression in 1987. As well as this, Roth had again battled with severe depression in 1993 and this is thought to have been due to the negative reaction that he got from the publishing of his novel, Operation Shylock.
In 2009, Roth chose to end his fictional career. Nonetheless, he was still being known as a celebrity-like figure in America. In 2011, Roth was awarded the National Humanities Medal by former US president, Barack Obama.
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