Philip Roth
8 SeriesPhilip Roth was a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, notably for "American Pastoral" in 1997. He is best known for his Nathan Zuckerman series. Roth received the inaugural Franz Kafka Prize in 2001 and the National Medal of Arts from the White House.
American Pastoral, the first in Philip Roth's American trilogy, follows Seymour "Swede" Levov, a hardworking man who inherits his father's Newark glove factory. Set during the turbulent 1960s, the novel traces Swede's rise and dramatic fall. Despite his private nature and good intentions, Swede's life unravels as he becomes entangled in the era's historical upheavals.
