E. L. Doctorow (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
E. L. Doctorow (DOK-tur-oh) must be counted as one of the most significant novelists of the generation that began publishing in the 1960’s. All of his work is imbued with a sense of history, by an innovative unity of fact and fiction, and by an intense desire to comment upon the most important political events of the twentieth century. Doctorow was a philosophy major at Kenyon College, and his literary work is informed by a probing exploration of how human beings interpret reality.
Edgar Lawrence Doctorow was reared in the Bronx, the setting for World’s Fair, which...
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