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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novelist Philip Roth Dies At 85

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The great American novelist Philip Roth is dead at the age of 85. His agent said he died of congestive heart failure in a New York City hospital Tuesday night.

Here & Now's Meghna Chakrabarti looks back at Roth's life with Petra Mayer (@petramatic) of NPR Books.

This segment aired on May 23, 2018.

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