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Who influenced Philip Roth?

  • William Faulkner

    American writer (1897–1962)

    Influenced 63

    Influenced by 1

  • Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    Russian novelist (1821–1881)

    Influenced 37

    Influenced by 18

  • Franz Kafka

    Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)

    Influenced 28

    Influenced by 3

  • Albert Camus

    French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)

    Influenced 27

    Influenced by 13

  • James Joyce

    Irish novelist and poet (1882–1941)

    Influenced 27

    Influenced by 1

  • Henry James

    American and British writer (1843–1916)

    Influenced 23

    Influenced by 2

  • Leo Tolstoy

    Russian author (1828–1910)

    Influenced 19

    Influenced by 20

  • Ernest Hemingway

    American author and journalist (1899–1961)

    Influenced 18

    Influenced by 2

  • John Updike

    American novelist, poet (1932–2009)

    Influenced 17

    Influenced by 22

  • Gustave Flaubert

    French novelist (1821–1880)

    Influenced 14

    Influenced by 0

  • Joseph Conrad

    Polish-British writer (1857–1924)

    Influenced 9

    Influenced by 4

  • Louis-Ferdinand Céline

    French writer

    Influenced 8

    Influenced by 0

  • Mark Twain

    American author and humorist (1835–1910)

    Influenced 7

    Influenced by 0

  • J. D. Salinger

    American author (1919–2010)

    Influenced 6

    Influenced by 0

  • Nikolai Gogol

    Russian writer of Ukrainian origin (1809–1852)

    Influenced 5

    Influenced by 4

  • Henry Miller

    American novelist (1891–1980)

    Influenced 4

    Influenced by 0

  • Saul Bellow

    Canadian-American writer

    Influenced 4

    Influenced by 14

  • Sherwood Anderson

    American writer

    Influenced 4

    Influenced by 0

  • Emily Brontë

    English novelist and poet (1818–1848)

    Influenced 3

    Influenced by 0

  • Alessandro Piperno

    Italian writer

    Influenced 2

    Influenced by 0

  • Charlotte Brontë

    British novelist and poet (1816-1855)

    Influenced 2

    Influenced by 0

  • Günter Grass

    German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, and sculptor (1927-2015)

    Influenced 2

    Influenced by 0

  • Milan Kundera

    Franco-Czech poet and novelist (1929-2023)

    Influenced 2

    Influenced by 0

  • Aharon Appelfeld

    Israeli writer

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 0

  • Anne Frank

    German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (1929–1945)

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 0

  • Bernard Malamud

    American author

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 0

  • Ivan Klíma

    Czech playwright, publicist, bookwriter and university educator

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 0

  • Primo Levi

    Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 0

  • Ralph Ellison

    American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer (1914-1994)

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 1

  • Raoul Schrott

    Austrian poet, writer, literary critic, translator, and broadcaster

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 0

Who was influenced by Philip Roth?

  • Jonathan Lethem

    American novelist, essayist, short story writer, Roy E. Disney Chair in Creative Writing, Pomona College

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 26

  • Michael Chabon

    American novelist, short story writer, essayist

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 26

  • Alec Bogdanovic

    Italian writer

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 6

  • Howard Jacobson

    British author and journalist

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 2

  • Ian McEwan

    British author

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 5

  • Jonathan Franzen

    American writer

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 13