Edgar Lawrence Doctorow Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
E.L. Doctorow was born on January 6, 1931 in New York City, New York, USA as Edgar Lawrence Doctorow. He is a writer and actor, known for Ragtime (1981), Billy Bathgate (1991) and Daniel (1983).
The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.
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[testifying before a U.S government funding committee,1981] The truth is, if you're going to take away the lunches of schoolchildren, the pensions of miners who've contacted black lung, the storefront legal services of the poor who are otherwise stunned into insensibility by the magnitude of their troubles, you might as well get rid of poets, artists and musicians. If you're planning to scrap medical care for the indigent, scholarships for students, daycare centers for the children of working mothers, transportation for the elderly and handicapped - if you're going to eliminate people's service training jobs and then reduce their unemployment benefits after you've put them on the unemployment rolls, taking away their foodstamps in the bargain, then I say the loss of a few poems or arias cannot matter.
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In the dark Bronx days of the Great Depression, I lived on a street named after the brook or burn that once flowed through it. I came down the front steps of my house into a world that was sunny, warm, and clean. Nobody in the neighborhood owned a car, and so the street belonged to the kids. It was our stickball field, our flea market. We flipped pennies against a wall, traded baseball cards, played skelly with soda-bottle caps; we opened our hands for the delicate art of box ball, and abandoned ourselves to the wild neighborhood wars of ringolevio. An eminence who lived on our block was a captain in the Sanitation Department, which is why every other day in summer, the water wagon came grinding up the street, spraying from the sides of its tank a beautiful spreading arc of glistening rainbows that seemed ethereally to be herding this beast of a truck like a pair of angels. And when the water wagon turned the corner and was gone, the street was suddenly quiet except for the bubbling rivulets of water running along the guttered curbs, carrying with it our fleets of walnut shells and ice-cream sticks as we scurried along to see how far they would go before running aground.
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Daniel (1983) was one of the great commercial disasters of all time.
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Ragtime (1981) was a brilliant movie for the first 10 minutes, but unfortunately it goes on.
Studied with the poet and critic John Crowe Ransom at Kenyon College in Ohio, where he earned a bachelor's degree, then spent a year in the graduate program in drama at Columbia, where he met his wife, Helen Setzer, then an aspiring actress.
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Had homes in Manhattan, and Sag Harbor, New York.
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Author of a dozen novels, three volumes of short fiction and a stage drama, as well as essays and commentary on literature and politics.
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His family was a family of readers; he was named for Edgar Allan Poe, a favorite of his father's.
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The musical stage adaptation of his novel, "Ragtime" at the Drury Lane Productions in Chicago, Illinois was awarded the 2010 Joseph Jefferson Award for Musical (Large).
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Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Volume 170, pages 78-86. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2008.
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Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Vol. 133, pp. 184-191. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
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Musical play based on his novel "Ragtime" performed at the Piccadilly Theatre, was nominated for a 2004 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best New Musical of 2003.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Jolene
2008
story "Jolene: A Life"
Billy Bathgate
1991
book
Daniel
1983
novel "The Book of Daniel" / screenplay
Ragtime
1981
based on the novel by
Welcome to Hard Times
1967
novel "Welcome to Hard Times"
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson
1976
Adviser to President Grover Cleveland (uncredited)
$1.4 Million
