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Philip Roth, page 112
Ninburg, Leon, 48
Ninety Degrees in the Shade, 361
Nixon, Richard M., 88, 329, 332, 337, 343, 346–50, 359, 361, 431, 449, 696
see also Our Gang
Nobel Prize as possibility
Bellow and, 6, 536, 729
critics’ campaigns for, 77, 729–30, 777
The Human Stain and, 662
Leaving a Doll’s House and, 754
Ross Miller on, 698
Philip Roth Day and, 2
Pinter and, 2, 493n
PR on American writers and, 780
PR’s obituary and, 799
PR’s retirement from fiction writing and, 776–78
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall (Ishiguro), 741
Norris, Mary, 638n
“Nose, The” (Gogol), 363
“Notes for My Biographer” (Roth), 748, 755–57
“Novotny’s Pain” (Roth), 110–11, 216, 439
“NRACP, The” (Elliott), 200
Nussbaum, Martha, 774
Oates, Joyce Carol, 333n, 384, 391, 393, 537, 752
Obama, Barack, 752–53, 770, 791
Oberlin, Russell, 455–56
O’Brien, Darcy, 616
O’Brien, Dennis, 443
O’Brien, Edna, 409, 433, 537, 772–73
October Blood (Gray), 455
Old Glory, The (Lowell), 266, 306
Oliphant, J. Orin, 77
Olitski, Jules, 326
Olivier, Laurence, 415, 432, 503
Olmert, Ehud, 503–4
Olson, Elder, 95, 98
On a Note of Triumph (Corwin), 45, 273, 642–43
“On Literary Biography” (Updike), 737–38
Only in America (Golden), 221
On Native Grounds (Kazin), 170
“On the Air” (Roth), 335–36
On Trial: The Case of Sinyavsky and Daniel, 657–58
“Open Letter to Wikipedia” (Roth), 766–68
Operation Shylock (Roth), 588, 610
acclaim for, 3
Woody Allen in, 573
chance in, 392
contract for, 514–15
critical reception of, 543, 548–49, 737
doppelganger in, 545–46, 547
fact vs. fiction in, 543–44, 767
PEN/Faulkner Award for, 549, 581, 712
on Portnoy’s Complaint National Book Award rejection, 333
PR’s Miller Theater tribute and, 731
publicity for, 543, 549
research for, 4, 244
score-keeping in, 378n
style in, 547–48
Updike and, 548-49, 737
writing process, 543
Other Men’s Daughters (Stern), 791–92
Other Voices, Other Rooms (Capote), 80
Our Gang (Roth), 351, 360, 377, 659n
critical reception of, 345–47, 372
Guston and, 329
Howe on, 372
humor in, 346–47
justification for, 337–38
Charlotte Maurer on, 88
Nixon’s response to, 347–49
“On the Air” and, 335
payment for, 345
prefaces, 349–50
PR’s evolution and, 3
Styron and, 319
writing process, 337
Our Lady of the Flowers (Genet), 339
Oxenberg, Mrs. Howard, 260
Ozick, Cynthia, 37, 386, 430, 482–83, 543, 614–15, 672, 784, 799
Pacific Tremors (Stern), 676
Pacino, Al, 783–84
Paley, Grace, 283
Parker, Dorothy, 203
Parktilden Village (Elliott), 200
Patrimony (Roth), 32, 446, 519, 526n, 545
awards for, 540–41, 610
contract for, 514–15
critical reception of, 32, 540
PR’s last illness and, 798
public readings of, 541–42, 548
research for, 5
sales, 695
writing process, 507–8, 527
Pavlásková, Irena, 470n
Peale, Norman Vincent, 129
Pearl Harbor bombing (1941), 38
Pearlstine, Norman, 622
Pease, Howard, 27, 724
Peden, William, 188n
Pellar, Luba, 360
Pellar, Rudolf, 360
PEN America, 383–85, 682, 729, 774
Pendleton, Moses, 401–2
Penn, Irving, 467
Percentage Baseball (Cook), 351
Peres, Shimon, 471
Perfect Spy, A (le Carré), 433
Peterfreund, Sam, 46
Peterson, Bob, 310
Philip Roth: Unmasked, 770–71
“Philip Roth and Film” (Nadel), 782
Philip Roth Day (Newark), 1–2, 579, 703, 706
Philip Roth Lecture (Newark Public Library), 802
Philip Roth Reader, The, 364
“Philip Roth Reconsidered” (Howe), 370–77
Philip Roth Studies, 755
Philip Roth Unleashed, 20
“Philosophy, or Something Like That” (Roth), 80
Pierpont, Claudia Roth, 315, 715, 724, 731, 770, 772, 775, 779–80, 788, 794
Pinter, Harold, 2, 413, 435, 437, 493, 729
Plague, The (Camus), 208, 749
Plante, David, 428, 535, 576n, 713, 744, 806
Brigit and, 702–5
on Deception, 528
Kitaj and, 494
Patrimony and, 507
PR’s friendship with, 435
PR’s Israel trip with, 9, 472–73
PR’s protean character and, 806
on PR’s relationship with Claire Bloom, 805
PR’s 60th birthday party and, 543
PR’s suicidal tendencies and, 721
PR visits Columbia class, 610, 654
Herman Roth and, 505
Plath, Sylvia, 194, 342, 570
Playfair, Emma, 504–5
Playing House (Wagman), 342–43
Please Don’t Eat the Daisies (Kerr), 273
Plimpton, George, 135, 142, 144, 154–55, 260, 304, 367, 465, 719, 727
Plot Against America, The (Roth), 687, 760
acclaim for, 3
Enrico Adelman and, 779
allegory in, 690–91
alternative history in, 365
on American anti-Semitism, 38, 674–75, 691–93, 801
awards for, 695
Bellow on, 699
critical reception of, 690–91, 694–95
Ethel Finkel Greiss’s death and, 64–65
Let Freedom Ring! and, 49
92nd Street Y reading, 801
research for, 590
Susan Rogers and, 675
style in, 694–95
Trump election and, 695–96
writing process, 674–75, 693n
Pobedonostsev, Konstantin, 11
Pochoda, Betsy, 467, 679
Pochop, Zdenek, 384
Podhoretz, Norman, 133, 273, 369–71, 613–14, 661
Poorhouse Fair, The (Updike), 188
Poor Richard (Guston), 329
Popular Front, 60
Portnoy’s Complaint (Roth), 27, 301, 306, 362, 377, 389–90, 427, 530, 548, 585, 615, 625, 655, 728–29, 769, 776–77, 792
acclaim for, 3
American Pastoral and, 613
anti-Semitism accusations and, 2, 310, 311, 312, 315–16, 317–18, 369–76, 476–77
audiobook of, 590
Bellow on, 536
Bellow’s influence on, 108
The Breast and, 352, 364
Bob and Norma Brustein and, 256
Capote on, 318–20
censorship of, 303
cover design, 306
critical reception of, 26, 303, 309–15, 318–20, 325, 370–76, 484, 662
Czech edition of, 360, 523
fact vs. fiction in, 2, 4, 287–88, 311, 316, 483, 509, 544
film version, 783
Howe on, 311, 319, 370–76
Kleinschmidt and, 290–91
Levi and, 486
Maggie and, 121n, 230
on Markfield, 133
Markfield and, 177
Mildred Martin on, 443
Ann Mudge and, 324
National Book Award rejection, 333–34
Nixon on, 348–49
Obama on, 753
“On the Air” and, 335
PR’s bar mitzvah and, 50
PR’s father and, 70
PR’s mail about, 322–23
PR’s mother and, 22–26, 28, 40, 47, 59, 286–87, 316, 317, 318, 675
PR’s National Humanities Medal and, 753
PR’s notoriety and, 2, 63, 309–10, 317–18, 321–23, 328, 338, 380, 396–97, 545
PR’s parents’ reactions to, 316–17
publication of, 310–11
on racism, 47–48
rebellion against rectitude and, 5
Bernie Roth and, 59
Sender Roth and, 70, 313
Sandy Roth and, 671
royalties from, 294–95, 303–5, 345, 354
on sexual revolution, 670
Zadie Smith and, 802
success of, 303, 309, 314
Bernie Swerdlow and, 54–55, 623–24
translations of, 360, 659
University of Chicago faculty years and, 123
Updike and, 334–35
Weequahic and, 53
Weequahic High School and, 52
writing process, 286–90, 300, 449n
Portrait of a Lady, The (James), 94, 133, 181, 233–34, 485, 696
“Positive Thinking on Pennsylvania Avenue” (Roth), 129
Posternak, Jeffrey, 616
Poston, Tom, 273
Powell, Elizabeth (Betty), 81–82, 88–90, 92, 122, 123, 132, 443, 725, 764
Powell, Tristram, 461
Powers, J. F., 729
Pozen, Walter, 789
Pozorski, Aimee, 771
Prague Orgy, The (Roth)
The Anatomy Lesson and, 470
on dissident experience, 381
historical pain in, 484, 588
Jirí Mucha and, 383
PR’s dissident assistance and, 774
PR’s evolution and, 3
Bruno Schwarz and, 386n
screen adaptation, 470
Zuckerman Unbound and, 448
Prague Spring (1968), 360–61, 380–82
Prescott, Orville, 231–32
Prescott, Peter, 363, 440
“President Addresses the Nation, The” (Roth), 350
Presumed Innocent (Turow), 515
Price, The (Miller), 481
Prinz, Joachim, 440, 693
Pritchard, William, 591
Producers, The, 190
Professor of Desire, The (Roth), 669
Norma Brustein and, 393
Cheever on, 203n
contract for, 424–25
critical reception of, 426–27
Lelchuk and, 679
Library of America edition notes on, 709
royalties from, 427
sexuality in, 425–26
teaching in, 340
writing process, 424
Progressive Party, 60–61
Promiscuous (Avishai), 315n
Prose, Francine, 657–58
“Psychoanalytic Special, The” (Roth), 257
Puzo, Mario, 142, 629
Pynchon, Thomas, 142, 531, 543
queer studies, 134
Questel, Mae, 317
Quinn, Anthony, 756
Rabbit at Rest (Updike), 548
Rabbit Is Rich (Updike), 588, 792
Rabbit Redux (Updike), 284
racism
historical pain and, 379, 589–90
PR’s childhood opposition to, 47–48
Rackman, Emanuel, 168, 169–70, 222–24, 469
Radetzky March, The (Joseph Roth), 11
Radji, Parviz C., 433–34
Rage and Fire (Gray), 570
Rahv, Philip, 275, 289, 330, 362–63, 586
Rand, Ayn, 191
Rand, Paul, 189
Random House
The Go-Between and, 136
income from, 210
Letting Go and, 216–17, 225
Our Gang and, 337–38, 345–46
Portnoy’s Complaint and, 303, 310
PR’s departure from, 354
PR’s dissatisfaction with, 282–83, 293n, 304–5, 452
PR’s move to, 197–98
When She Was Good and, 279, 281, 282
Rappaport, Stacey, 755
Ravelstein (Bellow), 636, 699
Ray, Satyajit, 570
Raymond, Nikos, 435
Reading Myself and Others (Roth), 403
critical reception of, 396
Farrar, Straus and Giroux and, 396
Reagan, Ronald, 208, 438, 493, 506
Real People (Lurie), 680
Red Badge of Courage, The (Crane), 213
Rembar, Charles, 368–69
Remnick, David, 623, 636–37, 638n, 651, 707, 766, 771, 800
“Re-Reading Saul Bellow” (Roth), 635–38
Rhys, Jean, 435–36
Rich, Frank, 690
Richardson, Ralph, 740
Richler, Florence, 245
Richler, Mordecai, 177, 245
Rieff, David, 452–53, 482, 486, 488, 514, 529–30, 550
Riesman, David, 120, 137
Rise of American Democracy, The (Wilentz), 785–86
Rivers, Larry, 122
Robbins, Henry, 366–67
Robertson, Mary Elsie, 201
Robillot, Henri, 659
Robinson, Jackie, 41
Rockwell, Norman, 38
Rodgers, Bernard, 95, 787
Roemer, Bobby. See Gibb, Barbara (Bobby) Roemer
Rogers, Deborah, 522
Rogers, Jacqueline Ragner, 124, 142, 146, 153, 155, 159, 166, 245, 317, 331, 529, 603n, 660, 667, 742
Rogers, Susan, 124, 697, 699
Antarctica sojourn, 688–89
background of, 667
Claire Bloom and, 603
breakup with PR, 689, 702
in The Humbling, 742–43
in The Plot Against America, 675
PR’s grave marker and, 799
PR’s health issues and, 673, 687–88
PR’s last illness and, 798
PR’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters and, 6
PR’s romantic relationship with, 6, 603, 668–69, 675, 684, 687–89
Rogers, Tom, 124, 126, 128, 153, 155, 159, 166, 245, 447, 603n, 710, 725, 742
Rogow, Betty, 62
Rollings, Alane, 413, 678, 791
Rolo, Charles J., 188n
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 38
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 18, 37–38, 45, 57, 691, 785
Root, Leon, 58
Rosenberg, Fred, 52
Rosenberg, Tom, 685, 782, 784
Rosenfeld, Isaac, 28, 133, 178, 312
Rosenthal, Raymond, 282
Rosin, Benjamin J., 534
Rosmersholm (Ibsen), 434
Ross, Carol Fein, 599
Ross, Lillian, 640
Rosten, Leo, 168
Roth, Akiva (PR’s great-grandfather), 10
Roth, Bernard (PR’s uncle), 13, 32–33, 57–59, 91, 165, 520, 629n
Roth, Bertha Zahnstecher (PR’s grandmother), 10–11, 12, 13, 31
Roth, Bess (Batya) Finkel (PR’s mother), 5, 7, 43, 57–58, 61, 73, 104, 262, 739, 747
admiration for Eleanor Roosevelt, 38
Ben-Gurion and, 243
Claire Bloom and, 437
The Breast and, 364
childhood of, 15–16
Conarroe and, 341
controversies over PR’s writing and, 168–69
cooking and, 28–29
death of, 445–47, 458, 505, 507, 760
Ethel Finkel Greiss’s death and, 63–65
Goodbye, Columbus publication and, 170
Ruth Green and, 44
housekeeping, 27–28, 34
Judaism and, 29, 32
marriage of, 16–18, 447
Moorestown move, 101
in The Plot Against America, 675
Portnoy’s Complaint and, 22–25, 28, 40, 59, 286–87, 316–17, 675
PR’s Amagansett stay (1959) and, 178
PR’s childhood relationship with, 22–24, 25, 26
PR’s friends and, 55, 62
PR’s National Book Award and, 191
PR’s psychoanalysis and, 227, 288
PR’s relationship with Maggie and, 132, 159, 165
public activities, 29, 39
racism and, 47
reading, 27, 221–22
respectability of, 29–30
retirement of, 17
Sandy and, 22, 24, 35–36
socioeconomic status and, 16–18
Stern and, 791
Thanksgiving at Warren, Connecticut, house and, 357
World War II and, 39
Roth, Byrdine Block, 58–59, 91
Roth, Charlie (PR’s uncle), 12–14, 18
Roth, Ed (PR’s uncle), 25, 32, 57–58, 60–61
Roth, Herman (PR’s father), 5, 40, 43-44, 74, 176, 206, 240, 262, 365, 400, 439, 466, 517, 788
Ben-Gurion and, 243
Bess’s death and, 445–47, 505
birth of, 10
Claire Bloom and, 437
The Breast and, 364
brother Bernie and, 58–59
brother’s deaths and, 14, 520
cancer, 506–7, 517
character of, 30–31, 33, 35
controversies over PR’s writing and, 168–69
death of, 507–8, 519–21, 526
education of, 13
family solidarity and, 31–33
fictional representations of, 31
Ethel Finkel Greiss’s death and, 64
frozen-food business venture, 56–57
Goodbye, Columbus publication and, 170
insurance career of, 18–19, 29–30, 33, 46, 57, 68, 101
Jewish insularity and, 313
Judaism and, 32, 50
Moorestown move, 101
move to Florida, 505–6
as parent, 30–31, 35
Patrimony on, 32, 506–8, 519, 527, 540-41, 798
patriotism of, 37
peritonitis, 14–15, 27
in The Plot Against America, 692
politics and, 60–61
Portnoy’s Complaint and, 313, 316–17
PR’s alienation from, 69–70, 73, 82, 370
PR’s Amagansett stay (1959) and, 178, 179
PR’s college distance from, 70, 82
PR’s friends and, 55, 62
PR’s health issues and, 518
PR’s National Book Award and, 190–91, 316
PR’s relationship with Maggie and, 132, 165, 178–79, 248
on PR’s writing career, 154, 169, 190
reading, 27
retirement of, 17, 447, 505
schivtz baths and, 33–34
Thanksgiving at Warren, Connecticut, house and, 357
World War II and, 39
Roth, Irene (PR’s aunt), 58
Roth, Joan (PR’s cousin), 132
Roth, Joseph, 11
