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Doctorow was born January 6, 1931, [3] in the Bronx, the son of Rose (Levine) and David Richard Doctorow, second-generation Americans of Russian Jewish extraction who named him after Edgar Allan Poe. [4] His father ran a small music shop. [5]
Jul 22, 2015 · Award-winning Jewish-American author E.L. Doctorow, known for fictional historical works such as “Ragtime,” “Billy Bathgate” and “The March,” and an experimental narrative style, died...
DOCTOROW, EDGAR LAWRENCE (1931– ), U.S. novelist and editor. Born in the Bronx, New York, Doctorow began his career as a reader of fiction for TV and film studios. This led him into editorial work, first at New American Library (1959–1964) and then as editor-in-chief for Dial Press in the 1960s.
Jan 6, 2017 · January 6, 1931, is the birthdate of E.L. Doctorow, the American writer known for such novels as “Ragtime,” “The Book of Daniel” and “The March,” each of which mixed fictional dramas into epochal moments in actual U.S. history.
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Jul 22, 2015 · Doctorow was born and raised in New York City within a secular humanist and Jewish cultural milieu. While his work is often associated with a liberal tradition that has strong sympathies for the...
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Jul 29, 2015 · The Isaacsons from “The Book of Daniel” took the red-diaper Jewish route that Doctorow’s own parents, who he fictionalized in “World’s Fair,” would never have considered.
Jul 22, 2015 · His grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Russia. His father, David, had a store that sold musical instruments in the old Hippodrome building in Midtown Manhattan; his mother, Rose, played the...
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