E.L. Doctorow

Edgar Lawrence Doctorow (born January 6, 1931, New York, New York) is the current Glucksman Chair in American Letters at New York University.

Works include:

• The Book of Daniel (1971). Nominated for a National Book Award.
• Ragtime (1975). Received the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction and the Arts and Letters Award.
• Loon Lake (1980)
• Lives of the Poets: Six Stories and a Novella
• World's Fair. Received the 1986 National Book Award.
• Billy Bathgate (1989)

One of his short stories, "Walter John Harmon," about the cult of the cuckolding religious leader Walter John Harmon, appeared in The New Yorker, May 12, 2003.

After graduating from Kenyon College in the class of 1953, he was senior editor for New American Library in the early 1960s.