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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Fiction, History, American fiction (fictional works by one author), American Novelists, Drama, Fiction, historical, general, National Book Critics Circle Award Winner, American Civil War, American Historical fiction, American fiction, American literature, Authorship, Biography, City and town life, Classic Literature, Cold War, Confederacy, Doctorow, e. l., 1931-2015, Fiction, historical, Historical drama, Historical fiction, Interviews, Jewish families, Jews, King Philip's WarPlaces
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Abigail Williams, Ann Putnam, Arthur Miller (1915-), Betty Parris, Brently Mallard, Bridget Bishop, Devil, E. L. Doctorow (1931-), Elizabeth, Elizabeth Proctor, Ezekiel Cheever, George Herrick, George Jacobs, Giles Corey, God, John Hale, John Hathorne, John Proctor, Josephine, Louise Mallard, Martha Corey, Mary Warren, Mercy Lewis, Mr. Hooper, Peyton FarquharTime
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- Edgar Lawrence Doctorow
- E L Doctorow
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- DOCTOROW E L
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- E.l. Doctorow
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