Philip Roth was born on March 19, 1933, the second son of Bess Finkel and Herman Roth. The family, including older brother Sanford, lived a solidly middle-class life in Newark, New Jersey. Herman sold insurance for MetLife and struggled against overt anti-Semitism from his superiors. More @Wikipedia
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