(1933– )
a US writer of novels and short stories, mostly about American Jewish life. His best-known novel is Portnoy’s Complaint (1969). The short novel Goodbye Columbus (1959) won a National Book Award and became a successful film (1969). His other novels include My Life as a Man (1974), Zuckerman Bound (1985), Sabbath’s Theater (1995), which won a National Book Award, and American Pastoral (1997), which won the Pulitzer Prize .