| E. L. Doctorow  AKA Edgar Lawrence Doctorow
Born: 6-Jan-1931
Birthplace: New York City
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Author Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Book of Daniel Military service: US Army (1953-55) Father: David Richard Doctorow
Mother: Rose Levine
Wife: Helen Esther Setzer (m. 1953, one son, two daughters)
High School: Bronx High School of Science, Bronx, NY (1948)
University: BA, Kenyon College (1952)
University: Columbia University
Professor: University of California at Irvine
Professor: Sarah Lawrence College
Professor: Yale University
Professor: Princeton University
Professor: New York University
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Obama for America
Pulitzer Prize
National Book Award for Fiction 1986 for World's Fair
PEN/Faulkner Award 1990 for Billy Bathgate
National Book Critics Circle Award 1976
National Book Critics Circle Award 1990
Guggenheim Fellowship 1973
National Humanities Medal 1998
John P. McGovern Award 2000
Russian Ancestry
Jewish Ancestry
Author of books:
Welcome to Hard Times (1960)
Big As Life (1966)
The Book of Daniel (1971, novel)
Ragtime (1975, novel)
Loon Lake (1980, novel)
American Anthem (1982)
Lives of the Poets: Six Stories and a Novella (1984, short stories)
World's Fair (1986, novel)
Billy Bathgate (1989, novel)
Waterworks (1994)
City of God (2000)
Reporting the Universe (2003, nonfiction)
Sweet Land Stories (2004, short stories)
Wrote plays:
Drinks Before Dinner (1979)
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