![]() ![]() "The outlines of Doctorow's future as a novelist were scrawled like body chalk around this failure as a reporter," wrote Segal in the Washington Post. Doctorow had to admit he had invented the man. The young Doctorow turned in such a vivid description of a doorman at Carnegie Hall whom the famed classical musicians playing there admired, his teacher wanted to photograph the man and run the story and photo in the high school newspaper. While there, an English teacher gave him an assignment to write about a colorful person. Named for Edgar Allen Poe, Doctorow was born in New York City and attended the Bronx High School of Science. "Doctorow now occupies one of the narrowest subsets in American letters," declared David Segal in the Washington Post: "the million-selling author who is taken seriously." His reimagining of the Civil War, the Rosenberg spy trial, and the era before World War I have attracted a huge following and critical respect. His epic historical fiction evokes the 19th and 20th centuries, often boldly introducing historical figures into imagined situations. Doctorow is one of the most accomplished American novelists of the second half of the 20th Century, often considered in an elite company with Toni Morrison, Saul Bellow, John Updike, Philip Roth and only a few others. ![]() Army in Germany, early 1950s reader for Columbia Pictures, 1956–59 senior editor, New American Library, 1959–64 published first novel, Welcome to Hard Times, 1960 editor-in-chief, Dial Press, 1964–69 teacher at several colleges and universities, including Sarah Lawrence College, Yale University Drama School, Princeton University, New York University, and the University of California, Irvine, 1969–.Īwards: National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction, National Book Critics Circle, for Ragtime, 1975 award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1976 National Book Award, National Book Foundation, for World's Fair, 1986 Edith Wharton Citation of Merit, New York State Writers Institute, 1989–91 William Dean Howells Medal, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, for Billy Bathgate, 1990 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction, National Book Critics Circle, for Billy Bathgate, 1990 PEN/Faulkner Award for best novel, The PEN/Faulkner Foundation, for Billy Bathgate, 1990 National Humanities Medal, 1998 PEN/Faulkner Award for best novel, The PEN/Faulkner Foundation, for The March, 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction, National Book Critics Circle, for The March, 2006. Education: Kenyon College, B.A., 1952 graduate work at Columbia University.Īddresses: Publisher-Random House, 1745 Broadway, New York, NY 10019. Urn:oclc:50344053 Republisher_date 20170207132910 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 984 Scandate 20170119035239 Scanner Edgar Lawrence Doctorow, January 6, 1931, in New York, NY married Helen Setzer, 1954 children: three. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:02:23.306117 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA1147524 Boxid_2 CH129925 City New York Containerid_2 X0008 Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition Modern Library ed.
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