E.L. Doctorow’s work has been published in 32 languages. His novels include The March, City of God, Welcome to Hard Times, The Book of Daniel, Ragtime, Loon Lake, World’s Fair, Billy Bathgate, The Waterworks, and Homer & Langley. He has published three volumes of short fiction, Lives of the Poets, Sweet Land Stories, and All the Time in the World, and three collections of essays, Creationists, Reporting the Universe (The Harvard- Massey Lectures in the History of American Civilization), and Jack London, Hemingway and the Constitution. There have been five film adaptations of his work. His novel Ragtime was adapted for the musical theater, and a revival opened on Broadway in the fall of 2009. Among his honors are the National Book Award, two PEN/Faulkner Awards, three National Book Critics Circle Awards, the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, The Gold Medal for Fiction of the American Academy
E.L. Doctorow
Articles by E.L. Doctorow
Tuesday December 11
The Book of Daniel
I remember standing on the porch of our house on Weeks Avenue. It was a warm afternoon and I had scraped my knee on the sidewalk. My mother came out to tell me that an atom bomb had been dropped on Japan, I looked up in the sky over the schoolyard, but the sky was clear. I listened for the sound of the bomb, but the sky was quiet.
Friday October 26
Ragtime
But somehow piano lessons began to be heard. People stitched themselves to the flag. They carved paving stones for the streets. They sang. They told jokes. The family lived in one room and everyone worked:Mameh, Tateh and The Little Girl in the pinafore.