Staten Island Community College
Steiger, Anna
Steiger, Rod
Steiner, Marianne
Stern, Isaac
Stern, Richard
Stony Brook, State University of New York at
Strand, Mark
Straus, Roger
Strauss, Richard
Streicher, Julius
Streisand, Barbra
Styron, William
suffrage movement
Sun Also Rises, The (Hemingway)
Surprise Symphony (Haydn)
Susann, Jacqueline
Swede: Weequahic’s Gentle Giant (Masin)
Swedish Academy
Swift, Jonathan
Symons, Julian
Syrkin, Marie
Tati, Jacques
Taylor, Benjamin
Tel Aviv
Terezín concentration camp
Thailand
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (Borowski)
Thomas, D. M.
Thomson, Ian
Three Sisters (Chekhov)
Thurman, Judith
Time magazine; Best American Novel of the Year
Tolstoy, Leo
Tomb for Boris Davidovich, A (Kiš)
Tonight Show, The
Torrington (Connecticut)
Toscanini, Arturo
Towers, Robert
Town & Country
Treasury of Yiddish Stores, A (Howe and Greenberg)
Treblinka death camp
Trial, The (Kafka, F.)
Trimalchio (Fitzgerald, F. S.)
Tropic of Cancer (Miller, H.)
Tucker, Richard
Tufts University
Tumin, Melvin
Tunis, John
Turgenev, Ivan
Turin
Turn of the Screw, The (James)
Ukraine
Ulysses (Joyce)
United Jewish Appeal (UJA)
Updike, John; Czech writers, participation in Roth’s projects; death of; falling out of Roth and; reviews of Roth’s books by
Uris, Leon
Vaculík, Ludvík
Valley of the Dolls, The (Susann)
Vanity Fair
V-E Day
Vermont
Viagra
Vietnam War; opposition to, see anti-war movement; veterans of
Village Voice, The
Vilna ghetto
Voltaire
Wałȩsa, Lech
Walker, Alice
Walter Reed Hospital
Warsaw
Washington, D.C.
Washington Post, The
Watergate scandal
Weathermen
Web of Stories
Weequahic High School (Newark, N.J.)
Weldon, Fay
Welty, Eudora
“Whacking Off” (Roth)
Wharton, Edith
Wheeler, Burton K.
When She Was Good (Roth); screenplay of
Why Are We in Vietnam? (Mailer)
Wieseltier, Leon
Wikipedia
Wilentz, Sean
Williams, David
Williams, Holly
Wilson, Edmund
Winik, Marion
Wolfe, Thomas
Women in Love (Lawrence)
Wood, James
Woodstock (New York)
Woolf, Virginia
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
World as Will and Idea, The (Schopenhauer)
World Trade Center, terrorist attacks on. See 9/11 attacks
World War II. See Second World War
Wouk, Herman
Writers from the Other Europe series
“Writing About Jews” (Roth)
Wylie, Andrew
Wylie, Philip
Yaddo (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.)
Yale University
Yeats, William Butler
Yeshiva University
Yiddish
Yom Kippur War
Young Lions, The (Shaw)
Yugoslavia
Zionism
Zola, Émile
Zuckerman Bound (Roth)
Zuckerman Unbound (Roth)
Also by Claudia Roth Pierpont
Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
18 West 18th Street, New York 10011
Copyright © 2013 by Claudia Roth Pierpont
All rights reserved
First edition, 2013
Quotations from previously unpublished material by Philip Roth reprinted with permission of Philip Roth.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Pierpont, Claudia Roth.
Roth Unbound: a writer and his books / Claudia Roth Pierpont. — First edition.
pages cm
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-374-28051-2 (hardcover) — ISBN 978-0-374-71044-6 (ebook)
1. Roth, Philip—Criticism and interpretation. I. Title.
PS3568.O855 Z838 2013
813'.54—dc23
2013021685
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