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E.L. Doctorow
Born
in Bronx, New York City, New York, The United States
January 06, 1931
Died
July 21, 2015
Website
Genre
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Ragtime
— published 1974 — 102 editions |
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The March
— published 2005 — 40 editions |
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Homer & Langley
— published 2009 — 45 editions |
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Billy Bathgate
— published 1989 — 48 editions |
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The Book of Daniel
— published 1971 — 37 editions |
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Andrew's Brain
— published 2014 — 24 editions |
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World's Fair
— published 1985 — 35 editions |
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City of God
— published 2000 — 33 editions |
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The Waterworks
— published 1994 — 42 editions |
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Welcome to Hard Times
— published 1960 — 22 editions |
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Interviews
January 2014,
E.L. Doctorow
"His Favorite Books About Memory: Don't forget! The acclaimed author of Ragtime and Andrew's Brain recalls five books about our unreliable minds." ...More
"His Favorite Books About Memory: Don't forget! The acclaimed author of Ragtime and Andrew's Brain recalls five books about our unreliable minds." ...More
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“[Writing is] like driving a car at night: you never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
― E.L. Doctorow
― E.L. Doctorow
“Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
― E.L. Doctorow, Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews
― E.L. Doctorow, Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews
Polls
October 2014 New School Poll
1911, The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, pages 331
1925, The Trial by Franz Kafka, pages 276
1970, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, pages 291
1920, The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, pages 305
1916, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, pages 329
1952, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, 581 pages
1999, Girl With a Pearl Earring byTracy Chevalier, 233 pages
1966, Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, pages 311
1957, The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham, pages 220
1901, Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann, pages 731
1924, The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham, pages 246
1974, Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow, pages 336
1952, The Birds by Daphne du Maurier, pages 75
1908, The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton, pages 198
1914, Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, 684 pages
1985, The Postman: Il Postino by Antonio Skármeta, pages 128
1980. Aztec by Gary Jennings, pages 754
1903, The Ambassadors by Henry James, pages 528
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