More Writers & Company: New Conversations With CBC Radio's Eleanor Wachtel by Eleanor Wachtel

Author:Eleanor Wachtel
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Non-Fiction
ISBN: 9780307366160
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Published: 1996-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

E.L. DOCTOROW

Edgar Lawrence Doctorow started off as a script reader for Columbia Pictures and then as a literary editor in New York, first with New American Library and later Dial Press. But for thirty-five years now, he’s dedicated himself to writing popular and intensely readable novels—taking as his subject, as one critic put it, “the making of the American people.”

Ragtime (1975) takes place in early twentieth-century America; Loon Lake (1980), World’s Fair (1985) and Billy Bathgate (1989) are located in the 1930s; and The Book of Daniel (1971) in the 1950s and ’60s. To put things in historical context and lend a further air of actuality, Doctorow often intersperses real people in his fiction. In Ragtime, for instance, Emma Goldman, Theodore Dreiser, Sigmund Freud, Henry Ford and Harry Houdini figure in the lives of Doctorow’s fictional families. The Book of Daniel is set against the spy trial and execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

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