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    E. L. Doctorow

    Novelist, editor, professor (1931-2015)
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    Edgar Lawrence Doctorow was an American novelist, editor, and professor, best known for his works of historical fiction. He wrote twelve novels, three volumes of short fiction and a stage drama, including the award-winning novels Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, and The March. These, like many of his other works, placed fictional characters in recognizable historical contexts, with known historical figures, and often used different narrative styles. His stories were recognized for their originality and versatility, and Doctorow was praised for his audacity and imagination. A number of Doctorow's novels and short stories were also adapted for the screen, including Welcome to Hard Times starring Henry Fonda, Daniel starring Timothy Hutton, Billy Bathgate starring Dustin Hoffman, and Wakefield starring Bryan Cranston. His most notable adaptations were for the film Ragtime and the Broadway musical of the same name, which won four Tony Awards. Wikipedia

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    Doctorow was born January 6, 1931, [3] in the Bronx, the son of Rose (Levine) and David Richard Doctorow, second-generation Americans of Russian Jewish extraction who named him after Edgar Allan Poe. [4] His father ran a small music shop. [5] He attended city public grade schools and the Bronx High School of Science where, surrounded by mathematically gifted children, he fled to the office of ...
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    Jan 2, 2025E.L. Doctorow (born January 6, 1931, Bronx, New York, U.S.—died July 21, 2015, New York, New York) was an American novelist known for his skillful manipulation of traditional genres. Listen to American novelist E. L. Doctorow speak about his use of science in his novels E.L. Doctorow discussing his use of science in fiction.
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    American writer EL Doctorow was born on January 6, 1931 and passed away on July 21, 2015. He has been called a master of historical fiction, and is a rarity in the modern literary world for also being a commercial success. Doctorow was born in New York to Russian American parents, attended public high school.
  6. NEW YORK (AP) — Writer E.L. Doctorow, who wryly reimagined the American experience in such novels as "Ragtime" and "The March" and applied its lessons to the past and the future in fiction and nonfiction, has died. He was 84. He died Tuesday at a New York hospital from complications of lung cancer, his son, Richard Doctorow, confirmed
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    To support his family, E.L. Doctorow spent nine years as a book editor at NAL working with Ayn Rand and Ian Fleming among others. From 1964, he worked as editor-in-chief at Dial Press publishing work. The Bronx native was the son of David Richard Doctorow and Rose (Levine). His father had a small music shop.
  8. newworldencyclopedia.org

    Edgar Lawrence Doctorow (January 6, 1931 - July 21, 2015) was an American novelist, editor, and professor, best known for his works of historical fiction.. He wrote twelve novels, three volumes of short fiction, and a stage drama, including the award-winning novels Ragtime (1975), Billy Bathgate (1989), and The March (2005). Doctorow employed a technique of placing fictional characters in ...
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