The Great American Novel

PHILIP ROTH won the Pulitzer Prize for  American Pastoral. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at  the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American  Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction.   He twice won the National Book Award and the National  Book Critics Circle Award. He won the PEN/Faulkner  Award three times. In 2005  The Plot Against America  received  the Society of American Historians' Prize for "the outstanding  historical novel on an American theme for 2003-2004."  Roth received PEN's two most prestigious awards:  in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. In 2011 he received the National Humanities  Medal at the White House, and was later named the fourth  recipient of the Man Booker International Prize. He died in 2018.