Edgar Lawrence Doctorow (January 6, 1931 – July 21, 2015) was an American novelist, editor, and professor, best known for his works of historical fiction...

Ragtime is a novel by E. L. Doctorow, first published in 1975. The sweeping historical fiction occurs in the area of New York City between 1902 and 1912...

semi-historical novel by E. L. Doctorow, loosely based on the lives, trial and execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Doctorow tells the story of Paul...

directed by Dan Ireland, based on the short story "Jolene: A Life" by E. L. Doctorow. It marked Jessica Chastain's film debut. It premiered on June 13, 2008...

Jennifer Garner. It is based on the 2008 short story of the same name by E. L. Doctorow published in The New Yorker, which was in turn inspired by the 1835...

Masters & Their Works (2007) describes Doctorow as "a distant cousin of author E.L. Doctorow". In June 1999, Doctorow co-founded the free software P2P company...

Doctorow is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Dmitry Doctorow (1756–1816) — Russian general E. L. Doctorow (1931–2015) — author of novels...

Homer & Langley is a novel by American author E. L. Doctorow published in September 2009. It imagines a version of the lives of the Collyer brothers of...

Lydia Davis Samuel R. Delany Don DeLillo Junot Diaz Philip K. Dick E. L. Doctorow J. P. Donleavy Margaret Drabble Marguerite Duras Bob Dylan Umberto Eco...

directed by Miloš Forman, based on the 1975 historical novel Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow. The film is set in and around turn-of-the-century New York City, New...

World's Fair is a 1985 novel by American author E.L. Doctorow. It is a semi-autobiographical story of a boy named Edgar who lives in the Bronx during...

British-American drama film directed by Sidney Lumet, which was adapted by E. L. Doctorow from his 1971 novel The Book of Daniel. Paul and Rochelle Isaacson (based...

The March: A Novel is a 2005 historical fiction novel by E. L. Doctorow. It won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (2006) and the National Book Critics...

first published in 1967 by Dial Press and went out of print in 1980. E. L. Doctorow, then an editor at Dial, and Dial president Richard Baron agreed with...

"Introduction" to the Modern Library edition of The Call of the Wild, E. L. Doctorow says the theme is based on Darwin's concept of the survival of the fittest...

2 Nominations Russell Banks Raymond Carver Don DeLillo Hernan Diaz E. L. Doctorow Louise Erdrich Richard Ford Adam Haslett Oscar Hijuelos Ha Jin Denis...

Novels portal Billy Bathgate is a 1989 novel by author E. L. Doctorow that won the 1989 National Book Critics Circle award for fiction for 1990, the 1990...

The Waterworks (1994) is a book by American writer E. L. Doctorow. It was his eighth published novel. McIlvaine — veteran newspaper editor, lifelong bachelor...

James Baldwin, Saul Bellow, Giannina Braschi, Teju Cole, Don DeLillo, E.L. Doctorow, Roxane Gay, Langston Hughes, Barbara Kingsolver, Norman Mailer, Thomas...

drama film directed by Dan Ireland "Jolene: A Life" a short story by E. L. Doctorow inspired by the Parton song and source material for the Ireland movie...

few remaining residents. It is based upon a novel by the same name by E. L. Doctorow. A vicious stranger, the "Man from Bodie", terrorizes the small settlement...

style of music. Ragtime may also refer to: Ragtime (novel) (1975), by E. L. Doctorow Ragtime (film) (1981), based on the novel Ragtime (musical) (1998),...

Woman by John Fowles (1969), Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow (1975), Legs by William Kennedy (1975), Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (1979), Midnight's Children by...

Short Stories 2000 is a volume in The Best American Short Stories series. It was edited by Katrina Kenison and by guest editor E. L. Doctorow. v t e...

Andrew's Brain is a novel written by E. L. Doctorow, published in 2014. It was Doctorow's last novel to appear before his death in 2015. Andrew, from a...

War and Peace, Book Thirteen, Chapter XV E. L. Doctorow & Christopher D. Morris. Conversations with E.L. Doctorow, University Press of Mississippi, 1999...

for Fiction winners and finalists Year Author Title Result Ref. 1975 E. L. Doctorow Ragtime Winner 1976 John Gardner October Light Winner Cynthia Ozick...

Northwest Passage Leonard Q. Ross (Leo Rosten), The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N (short stories) 1938: Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca 1939: John Steinbeck...

character in Dan Ireland's drama Jolene, based on a short story by E. L. Doctorow inspired by Dolly Parton's song "Jolene". It follows the life of a sexually...

Kurt Vonnegut, John Barth, Robert Coover, Jean Rhys, Donald Barthelme, E. L. Doctorow, Richard Kalich, Jerzy Kosiński, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon (Pynchon's...