The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography

The unconventional autobiography of the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author-“the most vigorous and truthful of American writers” (Newsday)-who reshaped our idea of fiction. A work of compelling candor and inventiveness, instructive particularly in its revelation of the interplay between life and art.

Philip Roth concentrates on five episodes from his life: his secure city childhood in the thirties and forties; his education in American life at a conventional college; his passionate en...