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E. L. Doctorow

E. L. Doctorow

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E. L. Doctorow, one of America’s preeminent authors, has twice received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Edith Wharton Citation For Fiction, and the William Dean Howells medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Besides novels, including Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, and City of God, he has published a volume of selected essays, Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution, and a play, Drinks Before Dinner, which was produced by the New York Shakespeare Festival. His most recent novel is The March (Penguin, 2005). He lives in New York.

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