Philip Roth, 85
(ArtsJournal Theatre)

`The big one - the Nobel prize in literature - eluded him, but there can be few American literary careers so richly laurelled, early and late. He was a bestselling writer only once in his career, when Portnoy`s Complaint (1969) sold 420,000 copies in the first 10 weeks after publication.` Roth was, however, embattled throughout […]