Philip Roths work has been acclaimed around the world. His most recent novels are The Human Stain, published by Houghton Mifflin in 2000; I Married a Communist (1999), winner of the Ambassador Award of the English-Speaking Union; American Pastoral (1997), winner of the Pulitzer Prize in fiction; & Sabbaths Theater (1995), winner of the National Book Award. Previous award-winning works include Patrimony (1991), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; Operation Shylock (1993), winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award; The Counterlife (1986), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; & Goodbye, Columbus (1959), his first book, winner of the National Book Award. In 1998 he was awarded the National Medal of Arts.