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E. L. Doctorow dies.
Such a loss!
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07-22-2015, 01:04 AM | #2 |
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This is sad news. The Literary Club recently read Ragtime, and I really enjoyed it.
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07-22-2015, 06:11 AM | #3 |
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Ragtime is one of my all-time favorite novels, one I've reread several times. It's the basis for one of my favorite musicals, as well. Several years ago my son played "The Little Boy" in an excellent community theater production, and I still enjoy listening to the Broadway cast album. World's Fair was another novel of his I enjoyed, though not as much as Ragtime.
For some reason, I was convinced that he was the father of Cory Doctorow, but after reading his obituary, I see I was mistaken. |
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Here's a list of awards, as noted, taken from Wiki:
1975: National Book Critics Circle Award for Ragtime 1986: National Book Award for World's Fair[7] 1989: National Book Critics Circle Award for Billy Bathgate 1989: Edith Wharton Citation of Merit for Fiction[8] 1990: PEN/Faulkner Award for Billy Bathgate 1990: William Dean Howells Medal for Billy Bathgate 1998: National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities[9][10] 1998: Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award from the Tulsa Library Trust 2005: National Book Critics Circle Award for The March 2006: PEN/Faulkner Award for The March 2012: Inducted into the New York Writers Hall of Fame 2012: PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction 2013: Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation[11] 2013: American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction 2014: Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction[12] |
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Any relation to Cory Doctorow? It's an unusual name (or, to be more precise, a name that I personally haven't encountered anywhere else).
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07-27-2015, 06:26 AM | #7 |
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Thanks!
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08-05-2015, 01:17 AM | #8 |
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E.L. Doctorow: R.I.P.
THANKING E.L. DOCTOROW
Part 2: ... Doctorow has not been part of my literary life in the more than 60 years since I began to spend a great deal of my time with printed matter... ... Irrelevant nonsense deleted by moderator Part 17,826: ... His books taught me much, and he will be missed.--President Obama, 22/7/’15. Last edited by HarryT; 08-05-2015 at 12:50 PM. |
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08-05-2015, 07:52 PM | #10 |
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(meant to quote doubleshuffle here but screwed up)
hmmm.... I don't think I've read any of his books... what would you (not) like to know about me? ha Last edited by 4691mls; 08-05-2015 at 07:55 PM. |
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