From the Associated Press, March 19:
NEW YORK (AP) _ Philip Roth will collaborate with the Library of America on an eight-volume anthology of his works, including such classic novels as "Portnoy's Complaint" and "The Counterlife." It marks just the third time the Library of America has published the books of a living writer, and the first time the writer has participated in the project.
Founded in 1979, the New York-based Library of America is a nonprofit publisher created to "preserve our nation's literary heritage." Featured authors include Walt Whitman, Herman Melville and Mark Twain. Besides Roth, Eudora Welty and Saul Bellow are the only other writers published in their lifetime by the Library of America.
"It's thrilling to wind up in such company. Nothing could please me more," Roth said Friday in a statement.
The first two Roth volumes will come out in 2005, and the series will conclude eight years later, to coincide with the author's 80th birthday. One of the world's most admired writers, Roth has won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for "American Pastoral" and the National Book Award for "Goodbye, Columbus."
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