E. L. Doctorow (1931–2015)
Autor de Ragtime
Sobre El Autor
E. L. (Edgar Lawrence) Doctorow was born on January 6, 1931, in the Bronx, New York. He received an A.B. in philosophy in 1952 from Kenyon College and did graduate work at Columbia University. He served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps from 1953-1955. He began his career as a script reader for CBS mostrar más Television and Columbia Pictures and as a senior editor for the New American Library. He was editor-in-chief for Dial Press from 1964 to 1969, where he also served as vice president and publisher in his last year on staff. It was at this time that he decided to write full time. He wrote novels, short stories, essays, and a play. His debut novel, Welcome to Hard Times, was published in 1960 and was adapted into a film in 1967. His other works include, Loon Lake, The Waterworks, The March, Homer and Langley, and Andrew's Brain. He won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1986 for World's Fair and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in 1976 for Ragtime, which was adapted into a film in 1981 and a Broadway musical in 1998. Billy Bathgate received the PEN/Faulkner Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal in 1990. The Book of Daniel and Billy Bathgate were also adapted into films. He received the 2013 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters for his outstanding achievement in fiction writing. He died of complications from lung cancer on July 21, 2015 at the age of 84. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras de E. L. Doctorow
Een huis op de prairie 13 copias
Jolene: A Life [short story] 2 copias
Bad man from Bodie 1 copia
אגם הטבלנים 1 copia
An American Tragedy 1 copia
The Unfeeling President 1 copia
The Hunter [short story] 1 copia
Willi [short story] 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
The Call of the Wild, White Fang & To Build a Fire (Modern Library Classics) (1998) — Introducción, algunas ediciones — 289 copias
The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now (2008) — Contribuidor — 150 copias
Growing Up Ethnic in America: Contemporary Fiction About Learning to Be American (1999) — Contribuidor — 101 copias
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Expanded 10th-Anniversary Edition) (2008) — Contribuidor — 92 copias
Nation 1865–1990: Selections from the Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture (1990) — Introducción — 86 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Doctorow, Edgar Lawrence
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1931-01-06
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2015-07-21
- Lugar de sepultura
- Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York, USA
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- The Bronx, New York, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Yhdysvallat, New York, New York, USA
- Causa de fallecimiento
- cancer (lung)
- Lugares de residencia
- The Bronx, New York, USA
New Rochelle, New York, USA
Duitsland - Educación
- Bronx High School of Science, New York, New York, USA
Kenyon College (AB|1952)
Columbia University - Ocupaciones
- auteur
- Relaciones
- Henslee, Helen (echtg.)
- Organizaciones
- American Academy of Arts and Letters
New American Library
Dial Press
New York University
US Army - Premios y honores
- State Author of New York/Edith Wharton Citation of Merit (1989-91)
Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement (2002)
National Humanities Medal (1998)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (1976)
F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Fiction (1999)
American Philosophical Society (2007) (mostrar todos 8)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction (2013)
Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction (2014)
Miembros
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Group Read, November 2017: City of God en 1001 Books to read before you die (noviembre 2017)
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- Valoración
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- ISBNs
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- Idiomas
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- Favorito
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