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E. L. Doctorow

Edgar Lawrence Doctorow has received the National Book Award, two National Book Critics Circle Awards, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Edith Wharton Citation for Fiction, the William Dean Howell Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the National Humanities Medal.

Doctorow was born in New York City on January 6, 1931, and attended the Bronx High School of Science. After graduating with honors from Kenyon College in 1952, he did graduate work at Columbia University and served in the U.S. Army, which stationed him in Germany. In 1954, he married Helen Setzer. They have three children. Doctorow was senior editor for New American Library from 1959 to 1964 and then served as editor in chief at Dial Press until 1969. Since then, he has devoted his time to writing and teaching. He holds the Glucksman Chair in American Letters at New York University and over the years has taught at several institutions, including Yale University Drama School, Princeton University, Sarah Lawrence College, and the University of California, Irvine.

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Born 6 January 1931

Subjects

Fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), New york (n.y.), fiction, Fiction, historical, general, History, City and town life, Fiction, historical, Fiction, psychological, Young men, Fiction, general, Social life and customs, National Book Critics Circle Award Winner, New York Times reviewed, American literature, Brain, Brothers, fiction, Fiction, biographical, Fiction, jewish, Fiction, political, Fiction, short stories (single author), Identity (Psychology), Jews, fiction, Loss (Psychology), Memory, award:national_book_critics_circle_award=fiction

Places

New York (State), New York, United States, New York (N.Y.), Dakota Territory, North Dakota, Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.), Adirondack Mountains Region, Alabama, Andover, Barbados, Bronx (New York, N.Y.), Caroline du Sud, China, Eastern Europe, England, Georgia, Géorgie (État), Harlem, Mallard residence, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Milford meeting house, North Carolina, Nueva York

People

Homer Lusk Collyer (1881-1947), Langley Collyer (1885-1947), Dutch Schultz (1900 or 1-1935), Dutch Schultz (1900 or 1901-1935), E. L. Doctorow (1931-), Abigail Williams, Ann Putnam, Arthur Miller (1915-), Betty Parris, Brently Mallard, Bridget Bishop, Devil, Elizabeth, Elizabeth Proctor, Emiliano Zapata (1879-1919), Emma Goldman (1869-1940), Evelyn Nesbit, Ezekiel Cheever, George Herrick, George Jacobs, Giles Corey, God, Harry Houdini, Henry Ford, J.P. Morgan

Time

19th century, 1865-, 20th century, 1901-1909, Civil War, 1861-1865, 1692, 1861-1865, 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession), 1861-65, 1950s and late 1960s, 19e siècle, American Civil War, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, December, Siglo XIX

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  • Edgar Lawrence Doctorow
  • E L Doctorow
  • e. L. Doctorow
  • DOCTOROW E L
  • E.L. Doctorow
  • E.L. DOCTOROW
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