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STILL - Then US President Barack Obama presenting National...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eRESTRICTION SUMMARY: \u003cbr/\u003e              AP CLIENTS ONLY\u003cbr/\u003e              SHOTLIST:\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP CLIENTS ONLY\u003cbr/\u003e              Washington - 2 March, 2011\u003cbr/\u003e              1. STILL - Then US President Barack Obama presenting National Humanities Medal to Philip Roth\u003cbr/\u003e              2. STILL - Roth with Obama\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP CLIENTS ONLY\u003cbr/\u003e              New York - 8 September, 2008\u003cbr/\u003e              3. STILL - Close, Philip Roth \u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP CLIENTS ONLY\u003cbr/\u003e              Warren, Connecticut - 5 September, 2005\u003cbr/\u003e              4. STILL - Roth inside screened tent at home in Warren, Connecticut\u003cbr/\u003e              5. STILL - Roth inside home with computer where he wrote\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP CLIENTS ONLY\u003cbr/\u003e              Peterborough, New Hampshire - 19 August, 2001\u003cbr/\u003e              6. STILL - Roth speaking with media before receiving Edward MacDowell Medal for contribution to the arts\u003cbr/\u003e              7. STILL - Roth with fellow author William Styron (L)\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP CLIENTS ONLY\u003cbr/\u003e              New York - 22 March, 1993\u003cbr/\u003e              8. STILL - Philip Roth\u003cbr/\u003e              STORYLINE\u003cbr/\u003e              Philip Roth, the prize-winning novelist and fearless narrator of sex, death, assimilation and fate, from the comic madness of \"Portnoy's Complaint\" to the elegiac lyricism of \"American Pastoral,\" died Tuesday night at age 85.\u003cbr/\u003e                \u003cbr/\u003e              Roth's literary agent, Andrew Wylie, told The Associated Press that he died in a New York City hospital of congestive heart failure.\u003cbr/\u003e                \u003cbr/\u003e              Author of more than 25 books, Roth was a fierce satirist and uncompromising realist, confronting readers in a bold, direct style that scorned false sentiment or hopes for heavenly reward. He was an atheist who swore allegiance to earthly imagination, whether devising pornographic functions for raw liver or indulging romantic fantasies about Anne Frank. In \"The Plot Against America,\" published in 2004, he placed his own family under the anti-Semitic reign of President Charles Lindbergh. In 2010, in \"Nemesis,\" he subjected his native New Jersey to a polio epidemic.\u003cbr/\u003e                \u003cbr/\u003e              He was among greatest writers never to win the Nobel Prize. But he received virtually every other literary honor, including two National Book Awards, two National Book Critics Circle prizes and, in 1998, the Pulitzer for \"American Pastoral.\" He was in his 20s when he won his first award and awed critics and fellow writers by producing some of his most acclaimed novels in his 60s and 70s, including \"The Human Stain\" and \"Sabbath's Theater,\" a savage narrative of lust and mortality he considered his finest work.\u003cbr/\u003e                \u003cbr/\u003e              He identified himself as an American writer, not a Jewish one, but for Roth the American experience and the Jewish experience were often the same. While predecessors such as Saul Bellow and Bernard Malamud wrote of the Jews' painful adjustment from immigrant life, Roth's characters represented the next generation. Their first language was English, and they spoke without accents. They observed no rituals and belonged to no synagogues. The American dream, or nightmare, was to become \"a Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness.\" The reality, more often, was to be regarded as a Jew among gentiles and a gentile among Jews.\u003cbr/\u003e                \u003cbr/\u003e              In the novel \"The Ghost Writer\" he quoted one of his heroes, Franz Kafka: \"We should only read those books that bite and sting us.\" For his critics, his books were to be repelled like a swarm of bees.\u003cbr/\u003e                \u003cbr/\u003e              Feminists, Jews and one ex-wife attacked him in print, and sometimes in person. Women in his books were at times little more than objects of desire and rage and The Village Voice once put his picture on its cover, condemning him as a misogynist. A panel moderator berated him for his comic portrayals of Jews, asking Roth if he would have written the same books in Nazi Germany. The Jewish scholar Gershom Scholem called \"Portnoy's Complaint\" the \"book for which all anti-Semites have been praying.\" When Roth won the Man Booker International Prize, in 2011, a judge resigned, alleging that the author suffered from terminal solipsism and went \"on and on and on about the same subject in almost every single book.\" In \"Sabbath's Theater,\" Roth imagines the inscription for his title character's headstone: \"Sodomist, Abuser of Women, Destroyer of Morals.\"\u003cbr/\u003e                \u003cbr/\u003e              Ex-wife Claire Bloom wrote a best-selling memoir, \"Leaving a Doll's House,\" in which the actress remembered reading the manuscript of his novel \"Deception.\" With horror, she discovered his characters included a boring middle-aged wife named Claire, married to an adulterous writer named Philip. Bloom also described her ex-husband as cold, manipulative and unstable. (Although, alas, she still loved him). The book was published by Virago Press, whose founder, Carmen Callil, was the same judge who quit years later from the Booker committee.\u003cbr/\u003e                \u003cbr/\u003e              Roth's wars also originated from within. He survived a burst appendix in the late 1960s and near-suicidal depression in 1987. After the disappointing reaction to his 1993 novel, \"Operation Shylock,\" he fell again into severe depression and for years rarely communicated with the media. For all the humor in his work - and, friends would say, in private life - jacket photos usually highlighted the author's tense, dark-eyed glare. In 2012, he announced that he had stopped writing fiction and would instead dedicate himself to helping biographer Blake Bailey complete his life story. By 2015, he had retired from public life altogether.\u003cbr/\u003e                \u003cbr/\u003e              He never promised to be his readers' friend; writing was its own reward, the narration of \"life, in all its shameless impurity.\" Until his abrupt retirement, Roth was a dedicated, prolific author who often published a book a year and was generous to writers from other countries. For years, he edited the Writers from the Other Europe series, in which authors from Eastern Europe received exposure to American readers; Milan Kundera was among the beneficiaries. Roth also helped bring a wider readership to the acclaimed Israeli writer Aharon Appelfeld.\u003cbr/\u003e                \u003cbr/\u003e              Roth began his career in rebellion against the conformity of the 1950s and ended it in defense of the security of the 1940s; he was never warmer than when writing about his childhood, or more sorrowful, and enraged, than when narrating the shock of innocence lost.\u003cbr/\u003e              ===========================================================\u003cbr/\u003e              Clients are reminded: \u003cbr/\u003e              (i) to check the terms of their licence agreements for use of content outside news programming and that further advice and assistance can be obtained from the AP Archive on: Tel +44 (0) 20 7482 7482 Email: info@aparchive.com\u003cbr/\u003e              (ii) they should check with the applicable collecting society in their Territory regarding the clearance of any sound recording or performance included within the 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