E.L. Doctorow

Edgar Lawrence Doctorow (6. januar 1931 - 21. juli 2015) var en amerikansk forfatter.

Biografi 
Edgar Lawrence ("E.L.") Doctorow blev født i Bronx, New York City, som søn af anden-generations amerikanere af russisk-jødisk herkomst. Moderen var pianist, faderen var musikforhandler. Efter studier i filosofi og litteratur debuterede han i 1960 som romanforfatter med Welcome to Hard Times. Han har sine romaner dyrket grænseområdet mellem dokumentarisme og fiktion og fik sit gennembrud i 1971 med The Book of Daniel (da. 1977) om retssagen mod de spionagesigtede Julius og Ethel Rosenberg og dens efterspil. I hans vel nok bedst kendte, Ragtime (1975, da. 1976; filmatiseret af Milos Forman i 1981), færdes historiske personer som Henry Ford, Harry Houdini, Emma Goldman og Sigmund Freud i en historie, der konfronterer sort og hvid, rig og fattig i USA i begyndelsen af 1900-tallet. Doctorow modtog flere store priser og var ved sin død regnet for en af de førende amerikanske forfattere. Hans sidste udgivelse blev Andrew's Brain (2014).

Bibliografi 
 1960 Welcome to Hard Times
 1966 Big As Life 
 1968 The Songs of Billy Bathgate
 1971 The Book of Daniel (da. Daniels bog, 1977)
 1975 Ragtime (da. Ragtime, 1976)
 1979 Drinks Before Dinner 
 1980 Loon Lake (da. Lomsøen, 1981)
 1982 American Anthem 
 1984 Lives of the Poets: Six Stories and a Novella (da. Digternes liv. Seks historier og en novelle, 1986)
 1985 World's Fair (da. Verdensudstillingen, 1987)
 1989 Billy Bathgate (da. Billy Bathgate, 1990)
 1994 The Waterworks (da. Vandværket, 1995)
 2000 City of God 
 2003 Reporting the Universe
 2004 Sweet Land Stories 
 2005 The March (da. Marchen, Bechs Forlag - Viatone 2014)
 2006 Creationists: Selected Essays 1993-2006
 2008 Wakefield (novelle), New Yorker 14 Jan 2008
 2009 Homer and Langley (da. Homer og Langley, Bechs Forlag - Viatone 2011)
 2014 Andrew's Brain

Priser og nomineringer 

Priser
 1975 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiktion for Ragtime
 1975 Arts and Letters Award for Ragtime
 1986 National Book Award for World's Fair
 1990 PEN/Faulkner Award for Billy Bathgate
 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiktion for The March
 2006 PEN/Faulkner Award for The March

Nomineringer
 1971 Nomineret til National Book Award for The Book of Daniel
 1980 Nomineret til National Book Award for Loon Lake
 1990 Finalist til Pulitzerprisen for Billy Bathgate
 2006 Finalist til Pulitzerprisen for The March
 2005 Nomineret til National Book Award for The March
 2009 Finalist til Man Booker prisen for Homer and Langley

Filmatiseringer 
 1967 Manden som red ind i Dakota (Welcome to Hard Times/Killer on a Horse), instrueret af Burt Kennedy og med bl.a. Henry Fonda og Janice Rule i rollerne
 1981 Ragtime, instrueret af Milos Forman og med bl.a. James Cagney og Howard E. Rollins i rollerne
 1983 Daniel, instrueret af Sidney Lumet og med bl.a. Timothy Hutton og Amanda Plummer i rollerne
 1991 Billy Bathgate, instrueret af Robert Benton og med bl.a. Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman og Loren Dean i rollerne

Litteratur 
 Arana-Ward, Marie. "E. L. Doctorow," The Washington Post, April 17, 1994, p. X6.
 Baba, Minako. "The Young Gangster as Mythic American Hero: E.L.Doctorow’s Billy Bathgate," in Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States.
 Bloom, Harold (Ed.). E.L. Doctorow Chelsea House, 2001.
 E.L. Doctorow’s Ragtime Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations, Chelsea House, 2001.
 Fowler, Douglas. Understanding E.L. Doctorow University of South Carolina, 1992.
 Girgus, Sam B. The New Covenant: Jewish Writers and the American Idea University of North Carolina Press, 1984.
 Harter, Carol C. and James R. Thompson. E.L.Doctorow Gale Group, 1996.
 Henry, Matthew A. "Problematized Narratives: History as Friction in E.L. Doctorow’s Billy Bathgate," Critique Magazine.
 Jameson, Frederick. Post Modernism: On the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism Duke University Press, 1991.
 Leonard, John. "The Prophet," New York Review of Books, June 10, 2004.
 Levine, Paul. E.L. Doctorow New York: Methuen, 1985.
 Matterson, Stephen. "Why Not Say What Happened: E.L.Doctorow’s Lives of the Poets," Critique.
 McGowan, Todd. "In This Way He Lost Everything: The Price of Satisfaction in E.L.Doctorow’s World’s Fair," Critique, vol. 42, 2001.
 Miller, Ann V. "Through a Glass Clearly: Vision as Structure in E.L. Doctorow’s Willi" in Studies in Short Fiction.
 Morgenstern, Naomi. "The Primal Scene in the Public Domain: E.L.Doctorow’s The Book of Daniel," in Studies in the Novel, vol. 35, 2003.
 Morris, Christopher D. Conversations with E.L. Doctorow University of Mississippi Press, 1999.
 Morris, Christopher D. Models of Misrepresentation: On the Fiction of E.L. Doctorow University of Mississippi Press, 1991.
 Porsche, Michael. Der Meta-Western: Studien zu E.L. Doctorow, Thomas Berger und Larry McMurtry (Arbeiten zur Amerikanistik)" Verlag Die Blaue Eule, 1991.
 Pospisil, Tomas. The Progressive Era in American Historical Fiction: John Dos Passos’ The 42nd Parallel and E.L.Doctorow’s Ragtime Brno : Masarykova univerzita, 1998. 
 Shaw, Patrick W. The Modern American Novel of Violence Whiston Press, 2000.
 Siegel, Ben. Critical Essays on E.L. Doctorow G.K. Hall & Company, 2000.
 Tokarczyk, Michelle M. E.L. Doctorow: An Annotated Bibliography Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, 1988.
 Tokarczyk, Michelle M. E.L. Doctorow’s Skeptical Commitment Peter Lang, 2000.
 Trenner, Richard. E.L. Doctorow:Essays and Conversations Ontario Review Press, 1983.
 Williams, John. Fiction as False Document: The Reception of E.L. Doctorow In the Post Modern Age'' Camden House, 1996.

Eksterne henvisninger 

 
 Guide to the E.L. Doctorow Papers 
 
 "Billy Bathgate Discussion With EL Doctorow"  (2004-11-30)
 Modern Library Editorial Board: Best Novels of 20th Century
 New York Times review of The Book of Daniel 

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