Philip Roth Throws in the Pen after NEMESIS

 

I have read more than half of his output, I guess. My favorites are AMERICAN PASTORAL, NEMESIS, and GOODBYE, COLUMBUS.  Not such a fan of the Zuckerman saga though.

And he never really wrote strong female characters. His women tend to be nagging mothers/wives, revolutionary daughters, fickle college girls, characters who remain in the background despite being on the page a lot. I am not sure that he hates women as much as he finds them uninteresting, unknowable, non-players. 

How about you? Any Roth fans out there?

What male writers write great female characters?  Greg Rucka says he does, right here.