E.L. Doctorow
E.L. Doctorow (born in New York, New York, January 6, 1931) 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.
He was senior editor for New American Library[?] in the early 1960s.
there come Sir Thomas Allen with two ladies; one of which was Mrs.
daughter at Chatham, who, poor heart! come to desire favour for her
challenge to his Captain, in the most saucy, base language that could be
punishment; for, "bear with this," says he, "and no discipline shall ever
her. So away we to the Duke of York, and there in his closett [Sir] W.
of, I thought, as to laying it to heart, as the matter deserved, but did
Coventry will add what force he can to it. I did speak to [Sir] W.
Treasurer, which he very readily and friendlily agreed to, at which I was
Carteret's, and there found my brother passing his accounts, which I
among others about discoveries of murder, and Sir J. Minnes did tell of
he was murdered. Thence, after dinner, home and by water to Redriffe,
again, walked, and pleased with a jolly femme that I saw going and coming
I could have gained acquaintance con elle, but at such times as these I
and to the office, where late, and then home to supper and bed. This
the garden, telling me stories how Sir Edward Spragge hath lately made
estate, and wit and spirit, and do contemn him the most, and sent him
how the parish talks of Sir W. Pen's family, how poorly they clothe their
once before, and some such thing there hath been, whatever the bottom of
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troubled, but little business done for want of money, which makes me
hath promised me a very fine draught of the Rupert, which he will make
beautifullest things that ever was seen of the kind in the world, she
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