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Biography of Edgar Laurence DoctorowName: Edgar Laurence DoctorowBirth Date: January 6, 1931 Death Date: N/A Place of Birth: Bronx, New York Nationality: American Gender: Male Occupations: writer Edgar Laurence Doctorow E.L. Doctorow (born 1931) is widely regarded as one of America's pre-eminent novelists of the 20th Century. His work is philosophically probing, employing an adventurous prose style, and the use of historical and quasi-historical figures, situations, and settings. Politically active and outspoken, Doctorow urges other writers to follow his lead in expressing their opinions about issues outside the literary community.Edgar Laurence Doctorow was born on January 6, 1931 in the Bronx, New York. He was named after the great poet and short story writer Edgar Allen Poe, who had also lived in the Bronx. Doctorow's parents were both second-generation Americans who descended from Russian Jews. His mother, Rose (Levine) Doctorow, was an accomplished pianist. His father, David Richard Doctorow, owned a music shop. When his business was wiped out during the Depression, he sold home appliances to support the family.Doctorow's household was rife with literary, intellectual, and political discussion. He …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…published City of God. In the book, abruptly changing episodes prove to be passages in a notebook by Doctorow's protagonist, a writer named Everett. Everett is looking for something to write about and finds an idea that interests him: an incident involving a brass cross that was stolen from an Episcopal church tended by a faith-doubting Thomas Pemberton. The cross turns up on the roof of the Synagogue for Evolutionary Judaism. Pemberton is murdered after a trip to Eastern Europe, and Everett eventually becomes attracted to Pemberton's widow. Associated Works Ragtime (Novel), The Book of Daniel (Novel) Further Reading Doctorow's City of God (2000) answers the following questions: Who, what, and where is God?Harter, Carol C. and James R. Thompson, E.L. Doctorow Twayne Publishers, 1990.Levine, Paul, E.L. Doctorow Methuen, 1985.Morris, Christopher D., Conversations with E.L. Doctorow University Press of Mississippi, 1999.Parks, John G., E.L. Doctorow Continuum, 1991. |