Henry Roth
Henry Roth (February 8, 1906 – October 13, 1995) was an American novelist best known for his 1934 novel Call It Sleep, a landmark depiction of Jewish immigrant life in New York. Born in Tysmenitz, Galicia (then Austro-Hungary; now Tysmenytsia, Ukraine), he immigrated to the United States as a child and grew up in New York City. After the poor initial sales of Call It Sleep, Roth published little for decades before reemerging late in life with the multi-volume autobiographical sequence Mercy of a Rude Stream and the collection Shifting Landscapes. His work is noted for its stream-of-consciousness style, psychological depth, and portrayal of immigrant experience.
Awards
['International Nonino Prize (1987)', 'Honorary Doctorate, University of New Mexico', 'Honorary Doctorate, Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion', 'Hadassah Harold Ribalow Lifetime Achievement Award (posthumous, 1995)']
Notable Works
['Call It Sleep', 'Mercy of a Rude Stream (multi-volume)', 'Shifting Landscapes']
