Seminal American novelist Philip Roth dead at 85

Grand man of American letters Philip Roth, a fierce and prolific talent who achieved fame with the sexually explicit “Portnoy’s Complaint” in 1969, has died at 85. Roth’s literary agent, Andrew Wylie, told US media that the writer died Tuesday of congestive heart failure. The New Yorker magazine and the New York Times had both...

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