E. L. Doctorow (1931–2015)

E.L. DOCTOROW (Billy Bathgate, City of God, Creationists, DRINKS BEFORE DINNER, Homer & Langley, Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution:, Lives of the Poets, Loon Lake, Ragtime, Sweet land stories, The Book of Daniel, The March, The Waterworks, Welcome to hard times, World's fair)

E. L. Doctorow’s works of fiction include Homer & Langley, The March, Billy Bathgate, Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, City of God, Welcome to hard times, Loon Lake, World’s Fair, The Waterworks, and All the Time in the World. Among his honors are the National Book Award, three National Book Critics Circle awards, two PEN/Faulkner awards, the Edith Wharton Citation for Fiction, and the presidentially conferred National Humanities Medal. In 2009 he was short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize honoring a writer’s lifetime achievement in fiction, and in 2012 he won the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, given to an author whose “scale of achievement over a sustained career places him . . . in the highest rank of American literature.” In 2013 the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded him the Gold Medal for Fiction. (tilføjet fra Random House)… (mere)

E.L. DOCTOROW (Billy Bathgate, City of God, Creationists, DRINKS BEFORE DINNER, Homer & Langley, Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution:, Lives of the Poets, Loon Lake, Ragtime, Sweet land stories, The Book of Daniel, The March, The Waterworks, Welcome to hard times, World's fair)

E. L. Doctorow’s works of fiction include Homer & Langley, The March, Billy Bathgate, Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, City of God, Welcome to hard times, Loon Lake, World’s Fair, The Waterworks, and All the Time in the World. Among his honors are the National Book Award, three National Book Critics Circle awards, two PEN/Faulkner awards, the Edith Wharton Citation for Fiction, and the presidentially conferred National Humanities Medal. In 2009 he was short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize honoring a writer’s lifetime achievement in fiction, and in 2012 he won the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, given to an author whose “scale of achievement over a sustained career places him . . . in the highest rank of American literature.” In 2013 the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded him the Gold Medal for Fiction. (tilføjet fra Random House)… (mere)

E.L. DOCTOROW (Billy Bathgate, City of God, Creationists, DRINKS BEFORE DINNER, Homer & Langley, Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution:, Lives of the Poets, Loon Lake, Ragtime, Sweet land stories, The Book of Daniel, The March, The Waterworks, Welcome to hard times, World's fair)

E. L. Doctorow’s works of fiction include Homer & Langley, The March, Billy Bathgate, Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, City of God, Welcome to hard times, Loon Lake, World’s Fair, The Waterworks, and All the Time in the World. Among his honors are the National Book Award, three National Book Critics Circle awards, two PEN/Faulkner awards, the Edith Wharton Citation for Fiction, and the presidentially conferred National Humanities Medal. In 2009 he was short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize honoring a writer’s lifetime achievement in fiction, and in 2012 he won the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, given to an author whose “scale of achievement over a sustained career places him . . . in the highest rank of American literature.” In 2013 the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded him the Gold Medal for Fiction. (tilføjet fra Random House)… (mere)

E.L. DOCTOROW (Billy Bathgate, City of God, Creationists, DRINKS BEFORE DINNER, Homer & Langley, Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution:, Lives of the Poets, Loon Lake, Ragtime, Sweet land stories, The Book of Daniel, The March, The Waterworks, Welcome to hard times, World's fair)

E. L. Doctorow’s works of fiction include Homer & Langley, The March, Billy Bathgate, Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, City of God, Welcome to hard times, Loon Lake, World’s Fair, The Waterworks, and All the Time in the World. Among his honors are the National Book Award, three National Book Critics Circle awards, two PEN/Faulkner awards, the Edith Wharton Citation for Fiction, and the presidentially conferred National Humanities Medal. In 2009 he was short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize honoring a writer’s lifetime achievement in fiction, and in 2012 he won the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, given to an author whose “scale of achievement over a sustained career places him . . . in the highest rank of American literature.” In 2013 the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded him the Gold Medal for Fiction. (tilføjet fra Random House)… (mere)

E.L. DOCTOROW (Billy Bathgate, City of God, Creationists, DRINKS BEFORE DINNER, Homer & Langley, Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution:, Lives of the Poets, Loon Lake, Ragtime, Sweet land stories, The Book of Daniel, The March, The Waterworks, Welcome to hard times, World's fair)

E. L. Doctorow’s works of fiction include Homer & Langley, The March, Billy Bathgate, Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, City of God, Welcome to hard times, Loon Lake, World’s Fair, The Waterworks, and All the Time in the World. Among his honors are the National Book Award, three National Book Critics Circle awards, two PEN/Faulkner awards, the Edith Wharton Citation for Fiction, and the presidentially conferred National Humanities Medal. In 2009 he was short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize honoring a writer’s lifetime achievement in fiction, and in 2012 he won the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, given to an author whose “scale of achievement over a sustained career places him . . . in the highest rank of American literature.” In 2013 the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded him the Gold Medal for Fiction. (tilføjet fra Random House)… (mere)

E.L. DOCTOROW (Billy Bathgate, City of God, Creationists, DRINKS BEFORE DINNER, Homer & Langley, Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution:, Lives of the Poets, Loon Lake, Ragtime, Sweet land stories, The Book of Daniel, The March, The Waterworks, Welcome to hard times, World's fair)

E. L. Doctorow’s works of fiction include Homer & Langley, The March, Billy Bathgate, Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, City of God, Welcome to hard times, Loon Lake, World’s Fair, The Waterworks, and All the Time in the World. Among his honors are the National Book Award, three National Book Critics Circle awards, two PEN/Faulkner awards, the Edith Wharton Citation for Fiction, and the presidentially conferred National Humanities Medal. In 2009 he was short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize honoring a writer’s lifetime achievement in fiction, and in 2012 he won the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, given to an author whose “scale of achievement over a sustained career places him . . . in the highest rank of American literature.” In 2013 the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded him the Gold Medal for Fiction. (tilføjet fra Random House)… (mere)

E.L. DOCTOROW (Billy Bathgate, City of God, Creationists, DRINKS BEFORE DINNER, Homer & Langley, Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution:, Lives of the Poets, Loon Lake, Ragtime, Sweet land stories, The Book of Daniel, The March, The Waterworks, Welcome to hard times, World's fair)

E. L. Doctorow’s works of fiction include Homer & Langley, The March, Billy Bathgate, Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, City of God, Welcome to hard times, Loon Lake, World’s Fair, The Waterworks, and All the Time in the World. Among his honors are the National Book Award, three National Book Critics Circle awards, two PEN/Faulkner awards, the Edith Wharton Citation for Fiction, and the presidentially conferred National Humanities Medal. In 2009 he was short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize honoring a writer’s lifetime achievement in fiction, and in 2012 he won the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, given to an author whose “scale of achievement over a sustained career places him . . . in the highest rank of American literature.” In 2013 the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded him the Gold Medal for Fiction. (tilføjet fra Random House)… (mere)

✯✯VENUE CHANGE✯✯ Due to inclement weather, this event in now free and will take place in-store.

Andrew's Brain (Random House, $26), the latest novel from the author of bestsellers including Ragtime, The March, and Homer and Langley is a vivid examination of whether or not a man can know his own mind. Cast as a kind of dialogue, the narrative follows Andrew and an unnamed interlocutor—his brain?—through wide-ranging discussions as Andrew remembers, regrets, confesses, and wonders.

Street: Politics & Prose Bookstore Additional: 5015 Connecticut Ave NW City: Washington, Province: District Of Columbia Postal Code: 20008 Country: United States (tilføjet fra IndieBound)… (mere)

E.L. DOCTOROW (Billy Bathgate, City of God, Creationists, DRINKS BEFORE DINNER, Homer & Langley, Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution:, Lives of the Poets, Loon Lake, Ragtime, Sweet land stories, The Book of Daniel, The March, The Waterworks, Welcome to hard times, World's fair)

E. L. Doctorow’s works of fiction include Homer & Langley, The March, Billy Bathgate, Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, City of God, Welcome to hard times, Loon Lake, World’s Fair, The Waterworks, and All the Time in the World. Among his honors are the National Book Award, three National Book Critics Circle awards, two PEN/Faulkner awards, the Edith Wharton Citation for Fiction, and the presidentially conferred National Humanities Medal. In 2009 he was short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize honoring a writer’s lifetime achievement in fiction, and in 2012 he won the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, given to an author whose “scale of achievement over a sustained career places him . . . in the highest rank of American literature.” In 2013 the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded him the Gold Medal for Fiction. (tilføjet fra Random House)… (mere)

E.L. DOCTOROW (Billy Bathgate, City of God, Creationists, DRINKS BEFORE DINNER, Homer & Langley, Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution:, Lives of the Poets, Loon Lake, Ragtime, Sweet land stories, The Book of Daniel, The March, The Waterworks, Welcome to hard times, World's fair)

E. L. Doctorow’s works of fiction include Homer & Langley, The March, Billy Bathgate, Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, City of God, Welcome to hard times, Loon Lake, World’s Fair, The Waterworks, and All the Time in the World. Among his honors are the National Book Award, three National Book Critics Circle awards, two PEN/Faulkner awards, the Edith Wharton Citation for Fiction, and the presidentially conferred National Humanities Medal. In 2009 he was short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize honoring a writer’s lifetime achievement in fiction, and in 2012 he won the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, given to an author whose “scale of achievement over a sustained career places him . . . in the highest rank of American literature.” In 2013 the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded him the Gold Medal for Fiction. (tilføjet fra Random House)… (mere)