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