E.L. Doctorow (1931-2015) was the author of several novels, including City of God, Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, and The March. Among the honors he received are the National Book Award, two National Book Critics Circle Awards, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Edith Wharton Citation for Fiction, the William Dean Howells Medal of the Academy of Arts and Letters, and the presidentially conferred National Humanities Medal.
Fiction
Winter 2009
All the Time in the World
What I’ve noticed: how fast they put up these buildings. Cart away the rubble, square off the excavation, lay in the steel, and up she goes. Concrete floor slabs and, […]
Nonfiction
Summer 2004
Composing Moby-Dick: What Might Have Happened
This essay was originally presented by E. L. Doctorow as the Astman Distinguished Lecture at Moby-Dick 2001, a conference hosted by the Melville Society (Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York) to […]
Interview
Winter 1995
The City, the Waterworks, and Writing: An Interview with E. L. Doctorow
The author of nine novels—Welcome to Hard Times, Big as Life, The Book of Daniel, Ragtime, Loon Lake, Lives of the Poets, World’s Fair, Billy Bathgate, and The Waterworks, as […]
Poetry
Winter 1979
Loon Lake
If you listen the small splash is beaver. As beaver swim their fur lays back and their heads elongate and a true imperial cruelty shines from their eyes. They’re rodents […]