Doctorow, E[dgar] L[awrence]
Doctorow, E[dgar] L[awrence]( 1931– ),New York City-born novelist, graduate of Kenyon College, editor in publishing firms, and faculty member at Sarah Lawrence College (1971–78) and NYU (1982– ). His first novel, Welcome to Hard Times (1960), depicted the devastation of a Dakota frontier town by an evil outsider. More than a decade later it was followed by The Book of Daniel (1971), the fictive biography of a boy recalling his parents, who, like their models, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, were executed for providing secret information to an enemy nation. He won great popularity and a National Book Critics Circle Award with Ragtime (1975), a jazzily written view of early-20th-century America that fuses tales of fictional characters and such real people as Henry Ford, Scott Joplin, Emma Goldman, and J.P. Morgan. Loon Lake (1980) is a picaresque novel about a Midwestern American's experiences in the 1930s and...
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