Writer Philip Roth died in a Manhattan hospital at the age of 86 from heart failure.

American writer Philip Roth died on Tuesday in a hospital in Manhattan, New York, at the age of 85. Information about the death of the writer was confirmed by his friend Judith Thurman.

According to The New York Times , the cause of the writer's death was heart failure.

In total, Roth wrote about 30 books - two trilogies (about David Kipesh and about Nathan Zuckerman) and about 20 novels, many of which were translated into Russian. These include The Tailor's Case (1969), My Husband is a Communist (1998), An Ordinary Man (2006), and American Pastoral (1997), for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.

His last book was published in 2010. And in 2012, Roth announced his retirement from writing. In an interview with the French magazine Les Inrocks, he said that he had lost inspiration and would not write another book.

Roth has twice won the National Book Award, received the Franz Kafka Prize in 2001, and has repeatedly won other prestigious literary awards. The writer became the fourth laureate of the international Booker, which is awarded every two years for merits in the field of fiction. In addition to Roth, 12 writers competed for the prize, including Juan Goytisolo and Philip Pullman.

In 2013, France presented Roth with its highest award, the Legion of Honor.

Philip Roth was born on March 19, 1933 in Newark, New Jersey, into a family of Jewish immigrants who moved to the United States from Galicia. He was educated at Bucknell University. He taught literature at the University of Chicago for three years and reviewed films and television programs for The New Republic.

In the writer’s hometown, one of the squares is named in his honor.

From 1990 to 1995, Roth was married to British actress Claire Bloom. Later and until his last days, his friend was Judith Thurman, who reported the death of the writer.

Philip Roth, the American literary icon whose novel "American Pastoral" won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, in 1998, has died, at the age of eighty-five. https://t.co/lHXsX83wXJ

— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) May 23, 2018

"Roth, the rebellious son, the fleshliest of writers, is turning into a monument before our eyes." Philip Roth has died at 85. https://t.co/6LFO3me9gI pic.twitter.com/2X5SgYctjk

— The New Republic (@newrepublic) May 23, 2018