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"I don't want you to rehabilitate me," Philip Roth said to his only authorized biographer, Blake Bailey. "Just make me interesting." Granted complete independence and access, Bailey spent almost ten years poring over Roth's personal archive, interviewing his friends, lovers, and colleagues, and listening to Roth's own breathtakingly candid confessions. Cynthia Ozick, in her front-page rave for the New York Times Book Review , described Bailey's monumental biography as "a narrative masterwork . . . As in a novel, what is seen at first to be casual chance is revealed at last to be a steady and powerfully demanding drive. . . . under Bailey's strong light what remains on the page is one writer's life as it was lived, and―almost―as it was felt." Though Roth is generally considered an autobiographical novelist—his alter-egos include not only the Roth-like writer Nathan Zuckerman, but also a recurring character named Philip Roth—relatively little is known about the actual life on which so vast an oeuvre was supposedly based. Bailey reveals a man who, by design, led a highly compartmentalized life: a tireless champion of dissident writers behind the Iron Curtain on the one hand, Roth was

Who reads Philip Roth : The Biography?

Author

Blake Bailey

Publisher

Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781510769731

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Memoir, Literary Fiction, History

Rating

4.5 / 5 (876 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14