Philip Roth was born in 1933 in Newark, New Jersey, into a well-off American Jewish family. He studied language and literature at the universities of Bucknell and Chicago.

Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize in 1997 for the novel American Pastoral . He's in the White House In 1998, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts, while in 2002 he was awarded the highest honor by the American Academy of Arts and literature (American Academy of Arts and Letters), Gold Medal for Literature work, whose previous winners were, among others, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner and Saul Below. He received the National Literary Award twice (National Book Award), in 1960 for his first book, Goodbye, Columbus , and in 1996 for Sabbath's theater . He is also a two-time winner of the National National Book Critics Circle Award, and triple laureate of the PEN/Faulkner award. In 2005, he received an award for the book Conspiracy against America Society of American Historians' prize for "outstanding historical novel about America during 2003–2004" and the WH Smith Award for the Best Book of the Year, which made Roth the first author in the forty-six-year-old history that won it twice.

In 2005, Roth became the third living American author whose work published in the comprehensive, definitive edition of the American Library. In in the following years he received the PEN/Nabokov (2006) and PEN/Bellow (2007) awards. In 2011, he was awarded the National Humanitarian Medal (National Humanities Medal), and later they declared him the fourth winner of the International Man Booker International Prize. Most Spanish award, the Prince of Asturias Award, he received 2012, and in 2013, the highest French decoration, Commander of the Legion of Honor (Commander of the Legion of Honor).