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Jan 7, 2019 · Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. Yesterday, January 6, would have been E. L. Doctorow’s eighty-eight birthday. Considered one of the most important American novelists of the 20th century, Doctorow, who died in 2015, was known for his imaginative manipulation of popular genres, use of unconventional narrative forms, and for placing fictional characters and […]
Apr 19, 2023 · E. L. (Edgar Laurence) Doctorow (b. 1931–d. 2015) is a well-established American writer of twelve novels, three collections of short stories, one play, several screenplays, and numerous essays and miscellaneous items. A native of New York City and a descendent of Russian Jewish immigrants, Doctorow grew up in the Bronx.
Apr 1, 2011 · The stories in “All the Time in the World” come from Doctorow’s middle and late career, and it’s easy to see — as many critics have said before — that the short form is not his ...
Jul 23, 2015 · Because Doctorow was, first and foremost, a master stylist. “His sensitivity to language is perfectly balanced,” Jennifer Egan wrote, “and complemented by a gigantic vision, so that, on ...
Oct 1, 2000 · 3.39. 2,797 ratings328 reviews. Daringly poised at the junction of the sacred and the profane, and filled with the sights and sounds of New York - a narrative of the twentieth century written for the twenty-first. In his workbook, a New York City novelist records the contents of his teeming brain--sketches for stories, accounts of his love ...
Read-Alikes for E.L. Doctorow. If you like E.L. Doctorow, try these authors: ( how we choose these read-alikes) Tyler Anbinder. Tyler Anbinder is a professor of history and former chair of the History Department at George Washington University. His first book, Nativism and Slavery, won the Avery Craven Prize of the Organization of American ...
Doctorow later had published a distillation of that argument in essay form entitled "The Passion of Our Calling." Doctorow's sixth novel, World's Fair, appeared in 1986. In it, Doctorow tackled a new literary form, the memoir, writing from the point of view of one Edgar Altschuler, a young man growing up in the Bronx during the Great Depression.
