Question: The Book of Daniel was written by which American editor?
Context: The Book of Daniel (1971) is a semi-historical novel by E. L. Doctorow, loosely based on the lives, trial and execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.  Doctorow tells the story of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson (corollaries to the Rosenbergs) through the persons of their older son, Daniel, and his sister, Susan, who are college students deeply involved in 1960s politics. Deborah Needleman, an American editor and writer is editor in chief of "T: The New York Times Style Magazine".  Prior to that she was editor in chief of WSJ.  Magazine, and before that, the founding editor in chief of domino magazine. Benjamin Schwarz (born October 20, 1963) is an American editor and writer.  From 2000 to 2013 he was literary and national editor of the American monthly magazine "The Atlantic".  He is currently consulting editor at large at Yale University Press and the national editor of "The American Conservative". Edgar Lawrence "E. L." Doctorow (January 6, 1931 – July 21, 2015) was an American novelist, editor, and professor, best known internationally for his works of historical fiction.  He has been described as one of the most important American novelists of the 20th century. Arthur Bartlett Maurice (1873–1946) was an American editor, born in Rahway, New Jersey, and educated at Richmond College (VA), and at Princeton.  He served as an editor of the Woodbridge (NJ) "Register" in 1895, as city editor of the Elizabeth (NJ) "Daily Herald" in 1896, and as special writer for the New York "Commercial Advertiser" in 1897-98.  Of The Bookman he was joint editor from 1899 to 1909 and editor thereafter.  He contributed to the New International Encyclopædia and wrote "New York in Fiction" (1901) and "History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature" (1904), with F. T. Cooper. William Keepers Maxwell, Jr. (August 16, 1908 – July 31, 2000) was an American editor, novelist, short story writer, essayist, children's author, and memoirist.  He served as a fiction editor at "The New Yorker" from 1936 to 1975.  An editor devoted to his writers, Maxwell became a legendary mentor and confidant to many of the most prominent authors of his day.  Although best known as an editor, Maxwell was a highly respected and award winning novelist and short story writer.  His stature as a celebrated author has grown in the years following his death. Jessie Redmon Fauset (April 27, 1882 – April 30, 1961) was an African American editor, poet, essayist, novelist, and educator.  Fauset’s literary work helped sculpt African American literature in the 1920s as she focused on portraying a true image of African American life and history.  Her black fictional characters were working professionals which was an inconceivable concept to American society during this time Her story lines related to themes of racial discrimination, “passing,” and feminism.  From 1919-1926, Fauset’s position as literary editor of "The Crisis," a NAACP magazine, allowed her to contribute to the Harlem Renaissance by promoting literary work that related to the social movements of this era.  Through her work as a literary editor and reviewer, she discouraged black writers from lessening the racial qualities of the characters in their work, and encouraged them to write honestly and openly about the African American race.  She wanted a realistic and positive representation of the African American community in literature that had never before been as prominently displayed.  Before and after working on "The Crisis," she worked for decades as a French teacher in public schools in Washington, DC and New York City.  She published four novels during the 1920s and 1930s, exploring the lives of the black middle-class.  She also was the editor and co-author of the African-American children's magazine "The Brownies' Book."  She is known for discovering and mentoring other African American writers such as Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, and Claude McKay. The Red Book is a trade mark of Gamestuff Inc and is an unauthorized edition of Chivalry & Sorcery (C&S) role playing game.  Its name is from the red cover of the 1st official edition.  All successive Red Book editions took the same design.  Editions of Red Book after the first are named in addition to numbered: Phoenix (2nd), Chimera (3rd), Gorgon (4th), Manticore (5th), Hydra (6th) and Minotaur (7th).  Red Book preserves the cover and typeface of the 1st edition of C&S.  C&S was originally created in 1977 by two Canadian game designers, Edward E. Simbalist and Wilf K. Backhaus, and first published by Fantasy Games Unlimited (FGU), an American editor.  The 2nd edition was also published by FGU (1983), the 3rd by Highlander Designs (1996) and the 4th by Britannia Game Designs (2000), an English editor. Greg Tobin is an American editor, publisher, journalist and author.  He worked as an executive in the book publishing industry in New York City for more than 20 years, including stints as vice president and editor in chief of Book of the Month Club (then a division of Time Warner) and senior vice president and editor in chief of Ballantine Books (a division of Random House). Benjamin Eli Smith, L.H.D. (February 7, 1857 – March 18, 1913) was an American editor and the son of Eli Smith.  Born in Beirut, Ottoman Empire (now Beirut, Lebanon), he graduated from Amherst College (A.B., 1877; A.M., 1881), earning the degree of L.H.D. in 1902.  He was managing editor of the first edition of the Century Dictionary, and editor-in-chief of the revised edition after the death of editor William Dwight Whitney in 1894.  As the editor, he was also responsible for the "Century Cyclopedia of Names" (1894), the "Century Atlas" (1897), the two-volume "Century Dictionary Supplement" (1909), and the revised and enlarged "Century Dictionary, Cyclopedia, and Atlas" (twelve volumes, 1911).  Additionally, he translated Schwegler's "History of Philosophy" and Cicero's "De Amicitia", as well as edited selections from other works.
Answer: Edgar Lawrence "E. L." Doctorow