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E.L. Doctorow
July 8, 2008
Edgar Lawrence Doctorow is widely
recognized as one of America's great masters of the historical
novel. His most recent work, The March (2005), is a fictional
account of General William Tecumseh Sherman's infamous military
rampage from the burned-out ruins of Atlanta to the Carolinas,
leaving a path of destruction that affected the South for generations.
The March received the 2006 PEN/Faulkner Award and the 2005 National
Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the 2005 National
Book Award.
Mr. Doctorow served as senior
editor for New American Library from 1959-1964 and editor-in-chief
of Dial Press from 1964-1969. Since 1969, Doctorow has devoted
his time to writing and teaching. He has been associated with
several colleges and universities, including the University of
California, Irvine; Sarah Lawrence College; Yale University Drama
School; and Princeton University. Currently, he serves as the
Lewis and Loretta Gluckman Professor in American Letters at New
York University.
Among other honors, Mr. Doctorow
was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Faulkner
Award and the William Dean Howells medal of the American Academy
of Arts & Letters for Billy Bathgate (1990); the National
Book Award for World's Fair (1986); and the National Book Critics
Circle Award for Ragtime (1976).
In 1984 he was made a member
of the American Academy and National Institute of Arts and Letters.
He is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1972, and was awarded a National Humanities
Medal in 1998. |
