Some Believe the American novelist Philip Roth, nudged win the Nobel Prize for Literature Announced "when it's this coming Thursday. Rita Braver caught up with the author in his old Hometown:
If it's true you can not go home again, Do not Tell That Thurs Philip Roth.
The Legendary writer's childhood house in Newark, New Jersey, still stands - with a plaque in his honor.
"It's Amusing," they admitted.
"When you lived here, and you were Growing up," Braver asked, "Did You Want To Be Famous? Did You Want To Be Somebody whose name everybody knew?"
"Yeah, I Wanted To Be A famous baseball player!" They Laughed.
Instead, they HAD Thurs settle for "America's greatest living novelist," as he's Been Called Many times.
And one of his greatest subjects is the town Where they Grew up. In his latest book, "Nemesis," they imagines a polio epidemic in the 1940s in Newark.
Read an Excerpt of Philip Roth's "Nemesis"
"It was, I think, the single-greatest menace," Roth said. "The cause was unknown. There was no Treatment. So, it was pretty terrifying."
"By my count, this is around your 30th novel, 'Nemesis'?" Braver asked.
"About, I guess."
"A lot of writers take Ten Years To Turn out one book," Braver said. "How do you write so Quickly, so prolifically, and so well?"
"I do not sleep!"
His real secret: 'may be solitude. Roth, now 77, has few distractions from his work on the sprawling rural property in Connecticut Where they lives alone.
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