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E. L. Doctorow (1931–2015)

Autor(a) de Ragtime: A Novel

49+ Works 23,113 Membros 651 Críticas 51 Favorited

About the Author

E. L. (Edgar Lawrence) Doctorow was born on January 6, 1931, in the Bronx, New York. He received an A.B. in philosophy in 1952 from Kenyon College and did graduate work at Columbia University. He served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps from 1953-1955. He began his career as a script reader for CBS mostrar mais Television and Columbia Pictures and as a senior editor for the New American Library. He was editor-in-chief for Dial Press from 1964 to 1969, where he also served as vice president and publisher in his last year on staff. It was at this time that he decided to write full time. He wrote novels, short stories, essays, and a play. His debut novel, Welcome to Hard Times, was published in 1960 and was adapted into a film in 1967. His other works include, Loon Lake, The Waterworks, The March, Homer and Langley, and Andrew's Brain. He won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1986 for World's Fair and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in 1976 for Ragtime, which was adapted into a film in 1981 and a Broadway musical in 1998. Billy Bathgate received the PEN/Faulkner Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal in 1990. The Book of Daniel and Billy Bathgate were also adapted into films. He received the 2013 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters for his outstanding achievement in fiction writing. He died of complications from lung cancer on July 21, 2015 at the age of 84. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

Obras por E. L. Doctorow

Ragtime: A Novel (1975) 6,213 exemplares
The March (2005) 3,009 exemplares
Billy Bathgate (1989) 2,270 exemplares
Homer & Langley (2009) 1,999 exemplares
The Book of Daniel: A Novel (1971) 1,545 exemplares
City of God (2000) 1,536 exemplares
The Waterworks (1995) 1,394 exemplares
World's Fair (1985) 1,284 exemplares
Loon Lake (1980) 813 exemplares
Andrew's Brain (2014) 605 exemplares
Welcome to Hard Times (1960) 498 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories 2000 (2000) — Editor — 391 exemplares
Sweet Land Stories (2004) 373 exemplares
Doctorow: Collected Stories (2016) 90 exemplares
Drinks Before Dinner (1978) 79 exemplares
Reporting the Universe (2003) 36 exemplares
A House on the Plains 13 exemplares
Big As Life (1966) 12 exemplares
Lamentation: 9/11 (2002) 9 exemplares
Three Screenplays (2003) 7 exemplares
Jolene [2008 film] (2008) — Writer — 2 exemplares
The Paris Review 92 1984 Summer (1984) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Bad man from Bodie 1 exemplar

Associated Works

The Secret Agent (1907) — Introdução, algumas edições6,531 exemplares
Sister Carrie (1900) — Introdução, algumas edições4,022 exemplares
Arrowsmith (1925) — Posfácio, algumas edições2,075 exemplares
The 42nd Parallel (1930) — Prefácio, algumas edições1,619 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories 2003 (2003) — Contribuidor — 467 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories 2002 (2002) — Contribuidor — 462 exemplares
American Gothic Tales (1996) — Contribuidor — 457 exemplares
Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from the New York Times (2001) — Contribuidor — 444 exemplares
The Call of the Wild, White Fang & To Build a Fire (Modern Library Classics) (1998) — Introdução, algumas edições293 exemplares
Karoo (1998) — Introdução, algumas edições279 exemplares
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (1998) — Contribuidor — 275 exemplares
Granta 24: Inside Intelligence (1988) — Contribuidor — 151 exemplares
The Best American Essays 1992 (1992) — Contribuidor — 138 exemplares
The Schocken Book of Contemporary Jewish Fiction (1992) — Contribuidor — 124 exemplares
The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction (2008) — Contribuidor — 122 exemplares
The Best American Magazine Writing 2003 (2003) — Contribuidor — 70 exemplares
The Best American Magazine Writing 2002 (2002) — Contribuidor — 69 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories 1985 (1985) — Contribuidor — 61 exemplares
Dark Arrows: Great Stories of Revenge (1985) — Contribuidor — 60 exemplares
The Jewish Writer (1998) — Contribuidor — 52 exemplares
The Best of the Marx Brothers (2007) — Introdução — 39 exemplares
The Good Parts: The Best Erotic Writing in Modern Fiction (2000) — Contribuidor — 34 exemplares
Who We Are: On Being (and Not Being) a Jewish American Writer (2005) — Contribuidor — 26 exemplares
American Review 20 (1974) — Contribuidor — 11 exemplares
Het derde Testament : Joodse verhalen (1995) — Contribuidor, algumas edições7 exemplares
Voices of Sag Harbor: A Village Remembered (2007) — Prefácio — 5 exemplares

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Historical fiction at its best with Doctorow commanding Sherman's march across the south.
 
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ben_r47 | 84 outras críticas | Feb 22, 2024 |
3.75. Great to read if you love the musical.
 
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Fortunesdearest | 122 outras críticas | Feb 2, 2024 |
(2005)Very good Civil War novel that follows several people that get involved with Sherman's march thru Georgia and the Carolinas at the end of the war.
 
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derailer | 84 outras críticas | Jan 25, 2024 |
I love Doctorow's writing and stories but this one just didn't do it for me. I got to the end and figured I must have missed the point. I just didn't understand what I was supposed to think at the end.
 
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Estatísticas

Obras
49
Also by
32
Membros
23,113
Popularidade
#914
Avaliação
½ 3.7
Críticas
651
ISBN
538
Línguas
23
Marcado como favorito
51

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