![]() ![]() Doctorow, photography by David Finn, and preface by Kofi A. Here, a collection of reviews of Doctorow's books: To be with him was to be at one’s best to read him was to discover, again and again, the joy of reading a master.” Or, as one of his contemporaries, Don DeLillo, summarized: "Doctorow’s great topic is the reach of American possibility, in which plain lives take on the cadences of history.” Conrad, The New York Times) Editors note: On March 12, the. In a statement from Random House, his editor, Kate Medina, said Doctorow's work "has always been ascendant, always steeped in the new, with original language, surprising storytelling, rigorous thought and standards of truth." She went on: "Edgar was fun, even as he was holding all of us to the high standards he set for himself. Doctorows novel 'Ragtime' was the subject of a 1975 Tribune review by John Brooks. ![]() The author of 12 novels, in addition to collections of short fiction and essays, Doctorow won a collection of major literary awards, including the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award (three times), the PEN Faulkner (twice) and the Gold Medal or Fiction (awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters). Doctorow published his own first novel, Welcome to Hard Times, in 1960. ![]()
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