Fresh Air, Philip Roth

Novelist Philip Roth on this archive edition of Fresh Air. His book The Human Stain is about a classics professor accused of racism who has a secret about his own ethnic identity. It's just been adapted into a new film starring Anthony Hopkins and Nichole Kidman. The Human Stain won the PENN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. It is the third of a trilogy which includes his American Pastoral and I Married a Communist. (Original Broadcast Date: May 8, 2000)