Though the two divorced in 1963, and Martinson died in a car crash in 1968, Roth's disfunctional marriage left an important mark on his literary output. It was during his Chicago stay that Roth met the novelist Saul Bellow, who briefly became his mentor, and Margaret Martinson, who eventually became his first wife. He continued his teaching career at the University of Pennsylvania where he taught comparative literature before finally retiring in 1992. Roth went on to teach creative writing at University of Iowa and Princeton University. in English literature and working afterwards briefly as an instructor at the university's writing program. Then he pursued graduate studies at the University of Chicago, taking an M.A. After graduating from high school at the age of 16, Roth went on to attend Bucknell University, where he joined Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity and got a degree in English. Roth grew up in the Weequahic neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey, as the second child of first-generation American parents, Jews of Galician descent.
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