Roth, Philip /rɒθ $ rɔːθ/ BrE AmE
(1933–) a US writer who is considered by many people to be the best writer of his time. His best known book is Portnoy's Complaint (1969), which deals humorously with ↑ middle-class Jewish life in the US. He won a Pulitzer prize in 1998 for his book American Pastoral .