died in Manhattan at the age of 85

Philip Roth, Author of 'Goodbye, Columbus,' 'Portnoy's Complaint,' 'The Plot Against America,' Dead at 85

By JNi.Media

In "The Plot Against America" (2004), Roth returns to his childhood years in Newark in the 1940s, in an alternative history where pro-Nazi aviator hero Charles Lindbergh is elected US president.