Yogi Berra’s baseball bat and a $17,500 typewriter: inside the auction of Philip Roth’s estate
The great American novelist died last year – and a huge stash of personal effects went on sale last week. J Oliver Conroy went along
About 10 years ago, Philip Roth asked his friend Russ Murdock – the longtime caretaker of Roth’s rural Connecticut home and, as he got older, of Roth himself – to carve his headstone. Roth told Murdock, a stonemason, to model it on Albert Camus’s: just names and dates, in simple block letters, etched into a stone Murdock later dug up on the property.
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