E. L. Doctorow

E. L. Doctorow's many novels include Welcome to Hard Times, The Book of Daniel, Ragtime, Loon Lake, World’s Fair, Billy Bathgate, The Waterworks, and City of God. His play Drinks Before Dinner was originally produced at the New York Shakespeare Festival Theater. His latest collection of essays is titled Reporting The Universe. His most recent book of short stories is Sweet Land Stories and his latest novel is The March, winner of the 2005 Pen/Faulkner award. His work has garnered the National Book Critics Circle Award three times, the National Book Award, the Pen/Faulkner Award, the Edith Wharton Citation for Fiction, and the William Dean Howells medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1998,  he received the National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Clinton. His novel Ragtime was made into a musical which opened on Broadway in January 1998. Professor Doctorow currently holds the Lewis and Loretta Glucksman Chair of English and American Letters at NYU.