E.L. Doctorow

E.L. Doctorow (born in New York, New York, January 6, 1931) is the current Glucksman Chair in American Letters[?] at New York University.

Works include:

The Book of Daniel (1971). Nominated for a National Book Award.
Ragtime (1975). Received the National Book Critics Circle Award[?] for fiction and the Arts and Letters Award[?].
Loon Lake (1980)
Lives of the Poets: Six Stories and a Novella
World's Fair. Received the 1986 National Book Award.
Billy Bathgate (1989)

One of his short stories, "Walter John Harmon," about the cult of the cuckolding religious leader Walter John Harmon, appeared in the New Yorker, May 12, 2003.

He was senior editor for New American Library[?] in the early 1960s.

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