Pulitzer-winning Philip Roth dies

AUTHOR Philip Roth, who was both hailed and derided for laying bare the neuroses and obsessions that haunted the modern JewishAmerican experience, died of congestive heart failure on Tuesday at the age of 85.

Mr Roth wrote more than 30 books, including the 1991 memoir Patrimony, which examined his complex relationship with his father and won the National Book Critics Circle Award.