David Simon, the creator ofThe Wire, recalled on Twitter a recent encounter with the Pulitzer Prize-winner.
What a marvelous, rigorous mind.
Screenwriter Michael Green (Logan,Blade Runner 2049) tweeted, We all wanted to be Philip Roth.
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None of us came close.
Eighty-five years is a good long life but I still gasped at seeing this news.
Actor Michael McKean (Better Call Saul) has also paid tribute to Roth, writing RIP Philip Roth.
Never created an uncomplicated hero, and we wouldnt have had it any other way.
See their tweets, below.
