Yesterday, January 6, would have been E. L. Doctorow’s eighty-eight birthday. Considered one of the most
important American novelists of the 20th century, Doctorow, who died in
2015, was known for his imaginative manipulation of popular genres, use
of unconventional narrative forms, and for placing fictional characters
and events within recognizable historical contexts. Perhaps John Updike
put it best when he characterized Doctorow as “a reconstructor of
history as a visionary who seeks in time past occasions for poetry.”
In a career that lasted over fifty years Doctorow won a National Book
Critics Circle Award, a PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, two National
Book Critics Circle Awards, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Gold Medal for Fiction, as well as numerous other accolades. Below, we look back on a selection of classic reviews of some of Doctorow’s most famous novels—from 1971’s The Book of Daniel (loosely based on the lives, trial and execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg), to 2005’s The March (a multi-perspective recounting of Sherman’s March to the Sea). ... [mehr] https://bookmarks.reviews/e-l-doctorows-5-most-iconic-novels/
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