E. L. Doctorow (1931–2015)
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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 mehr anzeigen 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) weniger anzeigen
Werke von E. L. Doctorow
A House on the Plains 13 Exemplare
Jolene: A Life [short story] 2 Exemplare
The Book of Daniel; Ragtime; City of God 2 Exemplare
An American Tragedy 1 Exemplar
אגם הטבלנים 1 Exemplar
The Hunter [short story] 1 Exemplar
Bad man from Bodie 1 Exemplar
Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008 1 Exemplar
Willi [short story] 1 Exemplar
The Writer in the Family [short story] 1 Exemplar
The Unfeeling President 1 Exemplar
Baby Wilson (in Storie di una dolce terra) 1 Exemplar
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A World of Ideas : Conversations With Thoughtful Men and Women About American Life Today and the Ideas Shaping Our… (1989) — Interviewee — 549 Exemplare
The Call of the Wild, White Fang & To Build a Fire (Modern Library Classics) (1998) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben — 296 Exemplare
The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now (2008) — Mitwirkender — 153 Exemplare
Growing Up Ethnic in America: Contemporary Fiction About Learning to Be American (1999) — Mitwirkender — 102 Exemplare
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Expanded 10th-Anniversary Edition) (2008) — Mitwirkender — 93 Exemplare
Nation 1865–1990: Selections from the Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture (1990) — Einführung — 89 Exemplare
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- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Doctorow, Edgar Lawrence
- Geburtstag
- 1931-01-06
- Todestag
- 2015-07-21
- Begräbnisort
- Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York, USA
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- The Bronx, New York, USA
- Sterbeort
- New York, New York, USA
- Todesursache
- cancer (lung)
- Wohnorte
- New York, New York, USA
- Ausbildung
- Bronx High School of Science
Kenyon College (BA, 1952)
Columbia University - Berufe
- Schriftsteller
Publizist - Beziehungen
- Henslee, Helen (echtg.)
- Organisationen
- American Academy of Arts and Letters
New American Library
Dial Press
New York University
US Army - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- 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) (Zeige alle 8)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction (2013)
Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction (2014)
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Doctorow schildert darin den Krieg in all seinen Facetten und Gräueln aus verschiedensten Blickwinkeln. Absatzweise gewinnt der Leser Eindrücke von desertierten Südstaaten-Soldaten, freigekommenen Sklaven, fouragierenden Unionstruppen, enteigneten Plantagenbesitzern, Offizieren, den Tross begleitenden Zivilisten, Feldärzten und Poiltikern. Kaum einem Werk gelingt es, das Wesen des Krieges in derartig mannigfaltigen Perspektiven und in erschreckender Deutlichkeit zu schildern. Doctorows Werk bietet mehr als ein klassischer Antikriegsroman. Der Autor stellt die Notwendigkeit des gerechten Krieges zur Diskussion."Der Marsch" beschreibt und warnt, überzeugt daneben mit historischer Akkuranz in literarischer Hinsicht durch die ausgeprägte Charakterstik der vielfältigen Protagonisten.… (mehr)