E. L. Doctorow
E. L. Doctorow · Arts & Literature
American historical novelist ('Ragtime', 'Billy Bathgate')
1931, The Bronx, New York, USA — 2015, Manhattan, New York, USA
United States
E. L. Doctorow is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — American historical novelist ('Ragtime', 'Billy Bathgate')
Edgar Lawrence Doctorow was an American novelist celebrated for historical fiction that wove real figures into invented narratives, in works such as 'Ragtime' and 'Billy Bathgate'. He won the National Book Award and multiple PEN/Faulkner and National Book Critics Circle awards. He was Jewish, from a second-generation Russian-Jewish family in New York.
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American historical novelist ('Ragtime', 'Billy Bathgate')
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Literature
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