A memoir relates how this writer checked himself into Silver Hill Hospital for psychiatric treatment in response to the disappointing reviews of the novel he believed to be his masterpiece.
A memoir relates how this writer checked himself into Silver Hill Hospital for psychiatric treatment in response to the disappointing reviews of the novel he believed to be his masterpiece. This writer's memoirs include an account of his father Herman's struggle with and eventual death from a supposedly benign brain tumor. This novelist had a strained relationship with his daughter-in-law Anna Steiger and disapproved of her long stays in his New York apartment. This author of Patrimony had his conduct as a husband attacked in the scandalous memoir Leaving a Doll's House, which was written by his actress ex-wife Claire Bloom, whom he portrayed in one of his novels as Eve Frame. Anatole Broyard's racial passing was long believed to be the inspiration for this writer's novel about Professor Coleman Silk. For 10 points, name this American writer whose alter ego Nathan Zuckerman narrates novels including I Married a Communist and The Human Stain.
A memoir relates how this writer checked himself into Silver Hill Hospital for psychiatric treatment in response to the disappointing reviews of the novel he believed to be his masterpiece.
Philip Roth [or Philip Milton Roth]