02.25.2009 2:35 pm
Philip Roth to publish new novel this fall
Post-Dispatch Book Editor
A report from the Associated Press notes that Philip Roth has two books in the pipeline:
NEW YORK (AP) — Fifty years after debuting with “Goodbye, Columbus,” Philip Roth is as prolific as ever.
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced Wednesday that the Pulitzer Prize-winning author will have a novel out this fall, titled “The Humbling,” about an aging stage performer. Next year, he’ll have another book, “Nemesis,” set during a polio epidemic in 1944.
Roth, who turns 76 next month, has been averaging a book a year for the past few years.
His works include “Portnoy’s Complaint,” “American Pastoral” and “The Human Stain.”
