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E L Doctorow

(Edgar Lawrence Doctorow)

(1931 - )

About E L Doctorow

E.L. Doctorow is one of America's most accomplished and acclaimed living writers. Winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award (twice), the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the National Humanities Medal, he is the author of nine novels that have explored the drama of American life from the late 19th century to the 21st.

Novels

Welcome to Hard Times (1960)
aka Bad Man from Bodie
Big as Life (1966)
The Book of Daniel (1971)
Ragtime (1974)
Drinks Before Dinner (1979)
Loon Lake (1980)
American Anthem (1982)
World's Fair (1985)
Billy Bathgate (1989)
The Waterworks (1994)
City of God (2000)
The March (2005)

Omnibus

Three Complete Novels (1994)

Collections

Lives of the Poets (1984)
Three Screenplays: Daniel, Ragtime, Loon Lake (2003)
Sweet Land Stories (2004)

Series contributed to

Best American Short Stories (with Katrina Kenison)
The Best American Short Stories 2000 (2000)

Non fiction

Essays and Conversations (1983)
Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution: Selected Essays, 1977-1992 (1993) (see Ernest Hemingway and Jack London)
Poets and Presidents: Selected Essays, 1977-92 (1994)
Lamentation: 9/11 (2002)
Reporting the Universe (2003)
Creationists: Selected Essays: 1993-2006 (2006)

Anthologies containing stories by E L Doctorow

American Gothic Tales (1996)
The Best of the Best (1997)

Short stories

	The Waterworks (1984)
	Untitled (1998)
	The Foreign Legation
	The Hunter
	The Leather Man
	Lives of the Poets
	The Water Works
	Willi
	The Writer in the Family

Awards

	Nebula Best Novel nominee (1976) : Ragtime
	National Book Award for Fiction Best Novel winner (1986) : World's Fair
	PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction Best Novel winner (1990) : Billy Bathgate
	National Book Award for Fiction Best Novel nominee (2005) : The March
	PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction Best Novel winner (2006) : The March

Books about E L Doctorow

E.L. Doctorow: An Annotated Bibliography (1988) by Michelle M Tokarczyk
Fiction As False Document: The Reception of E.L. Doctorow in the Postmodern Age (1996) by John Williams
The Fiction of Gore Vidal and E.L. Doctorow (2002) by Stephen Harris

E L Doctorow recommends

The Dylanist (1991)
Brian Morton
"Astonishingly mature."

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