Biography
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Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author known for works such as Goodbye, Columbus, Portnoy’s Complaint, American Pastoral, and The Human Stain. In 2001, he became the first ever recipient of the Franz Kafka Prize.
He graduated from Bucknell University and subsequently earned a Master’s degree in English literature from the University of Chicago. He published his debut novella, Goodbye, Columbus, in 1959.
His 1997 novel American Pastoral won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
He had two brief marriages. His first, to Margaret Martinson Williams, lasted from 1959-1963; his second, to Claire Bloom, spanned the first four years of the 1990s.
He was inspired to write after meeting Saul Bellow in 1956.
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Quotes
Writing is frustration – it’s daily frustration, not to mention humiliation. It’s just like baseball: you fail two-thirds of the time.
For all I know, I am beginning with the ending. My page one can wind up a year later as page two hundred, if it’s still even around.
I don’t ask writers about their work habits. I really don’t care.
Routinely, when I finish a book, I think ‘What will I do? Where will I get an idea?’ And a kind of low-level panic sets in.
Making fake biography, false history, concocting a half-imaginary existence out of the actual drama of my life is my life.
