In 1996, actress Claire Bloom wrote an unsparing memoir which bitterly portrayed author Philip Roth, her husband of 17 years, as an egomaniacal misogynist. In response, Roth reached out to a trusted ...
NEW YORK -- 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 ...