The Education of Henry Roth

Henry Roth, the author of Call It Sleep, one of the most distinguished American novels of the twentieth century, went into a literary silence that lasted almost fifty years after its publication in 1934, a subject that is speculated even in the 2000s. A comprehensive biography of Roth provides an account of the novelist's life in the turbulent decade that began with his entering college and culminated in the publication of his extraordinary first novel.