May 22 (Reuters) - Author Philip Roth, who was both hailed and derided for laying bare the neuroses and obsessions that haunted the modern Jewish-American experience, died on Tuesday at the age of 85, his agent said. Roth wrote more than 30 books, including the 1991 memoir “Patrimony,” which examined his complex relationship with his father and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Orjan F. Ellingvag via Getty Images Philip Roth, one of the great American novelists of the 20th century, died on Tuesday at the age of 85. After more than 50 years as a writer, Roth decided that 2010′s “Nemesis,” the story of a polio epidemic in the Newark, New Jersey, neighborhood where he grew up, would be his last novel. Philip Milton Roth was born on March 19, 1933, in Newark, New Jersey.

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