Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1933, Mar. 19 | Born, Newark, N.J. |
| 1950-1951 | Attended Rutgers University, Newark, N.J. |
| 1951-1954 | Completed B.A. in English, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pa. Founding editor and contributor, campus literary magazine Et Cetera |
| 1954 | Published first story, “The Day It Snowed,” in Chicago Review |
| 1955 | M.A. in English, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill. |
| 1955-1956 | Served in United States army. Received medical discharge |
| 1956-1958 | Instructor, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill. |
| 1959 | Married Margaret Martinson Williams (died 1968) Published Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. Winner of National Book Award and Daroff Award of the Jewish Book Council of America |
| 1960-1962 | Visiting lecturer, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa |
| 1962-1964 | Writer-in-residence, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. |
| 1963-1972 | Annual summer visits to Yaddo Artist's Colony, Sarasota Springs, N.Y. |
| 1965-1980 | Adjunct professor of English, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. |
| 1969 | Published Portnoy's Complaint. New York: Random House |
| 1973 | Published The Great American Novel. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston |
| 1974-1989 | Founder and general editor, Penguin Books series Writers from the Other Europe |
| 1979 | Published The Ghost Writer. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Initial work in the Zuckerman trilogy followed by Zuckerman Unbound (1981) and The Anatomy Lesson (1983) |
| 1986 | Published The Counterlife. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Received National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction and National Jewish Book Award for Fiction of the Jewish Book Council |
| 1990 | Married Claire Bloom (divorced 1994) |
| 1991 | Published Patrimony: A True Story. New York: Simon and Schuster. Winner of National Book Critics Circle Award |
| 1993 | Published Operation Shylock: A Confession. New York: Simon and Schuster. Won PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction |
| 1997 | Published American Pastoral. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. Awarded Pulitzer Prize for fiction |
| 2000 | Published The Human Stain. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. Received W. H. Smith Literary Award and other honors |
| 2001 | Received Gold Medal for Fiction, American Academy of Arts and Letters Published The Dying Animal and Shop Talk. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. |
| 2002 | Awarded Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, National Book Foundation |
| 2004 | Published The Plot against America. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. |
| 2018, May 22 | Died, Manhattan, N.Y. |