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Detach the writer from the milieu where he has experienced his greatest sense of belonging, and you have created a discontinuity within his personality, a short circuit in his identity. The result is his originality, his creativity comes to an end. He becomes the one-book novelist or the one-trilogy writer.
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Born:
February 8, 1906
Died:
October 13, 1995
(aged 89)
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Henry Roth was an American novelist and short story writer.
Known for:
Call It Sleep (1934)
Mercy of a Rude Stream (1994)
A Diving Rock on the Hudson (1995)
Shifting landscape (1987)
A star shines over Mt. Morris Park (1993)
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