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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

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Literature & Fiction


History based known novels of American writer Edgar Laurence Doctorow. His works of fiction include Homer & Langley, The March, Billy Bathgate, Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, City of God, Welcome to Hard Times, Loon Lake, World’s Fair, The Waterworks, and All the Time in the World. Among his honors are the National Book Award, three National Book Critics Circle Awards, two PEN Faulkner Awards, The Edith Wharton Citation for Fiction, and the presidentially conferred National Humanities Medal. In 2009 he was short listed for the Man Booker International Prize honoring a writer’s lifetime achievement in fiction, and in 2012 he won the PEN Saul Bellow Award given to an author whose “scale of achievement over a sustained career places him in the h ...more

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Average rating: 3.79 · 151,610 ratings · 12,901 reviews · 100 distinct works • Similar authors
Ragtime
3.89 avg rating — 46,214 ratings — published 1975 — 84 editions
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The March
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Homer & Langley
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Billy Bathgate
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The Book of Daniel
3.85 avg rating — 5,908 ratings — published 1971 — 76 editions
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World's Fair
3.85 avg rating — 4,933 ratings — published 1985 — 61 editions
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Andrew's Brain
3.22 avg rating — 5,003 ratings — published 2014 — 38 editions
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The Waterworks
3.45 avg rating — 3,480 ratings — published 1994 — 75 editions
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City of God
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Welcome to Hard Times
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“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
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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.”
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“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.”
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