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MarketWatch (press release)
December 30, 2008
... bluegrass musician Earl Scruggs in 1924 (age 85); auto executive John DeLorean in 1925; author EL Doctorow in 1931 (age 78); actress Bonnie Franklin in ...
Playbill.com
December 30, 2008
The epic musical, based on the EL Doctorow novel, interweaves the stories of three distinct families with historical figures to offer a snapshot of America ...
Broadway World
December 23, 2008
Based on EL Doctorow's distinguished novel, Ragtime intertwines three distinct stories that poignantly illustrate history's timeless contradictions of ...
Daily Beast
December 23, 2008
If it's true that, as EL Doctorow observed, "Duplicity is the basis of civilization," does it follow that as we become more "civilized," the more we're ...
So Md News
December 19, 2008
In 2003, he accepted a friend's invitation to narrate a documentary on acclaimed novelist EL Doctorow. "I kind of had to use my karaoke voice," he said, ...
Rotten Tomatoes
December 19, 2008
Set between 1909 and 1914, the
New York Times compares the novel favorably to EL Doctorow's Ragtime. Being from Wright's home state of
Wisconsin, ...
New York Observer
December 19, 2008
They include: Fiction by Rafael Ábalos, Ann Brashares, Isabel Allende, Martin Amis, Margaret Atwood, Maeve Binchy, Lee Child, Pat Conroy, EL Doctorow, ...
Press-Enterprise
December 18, 2008
"Jolene" (
USA) -- Based on a short story by EL Doctorow (Ragtime), Jolene is the tale of a young woman's ten-year odyssey traveling cross-country in search ...
Broadway World
December 18, 2008
Off-Broadway: Patrick Breen's Marking (directed by daughter, Elizabeth Gottlieb), The Stendahl Syndrome, The Substance of Fire, EL Doctorow's Drinks Before ...
Rocktown Weekly
December 18, 2008
Other blurbs bring up a more recent novel, EL Doctorow's "Ragtime," also set in the period. As I read "The Given Day," however, I kept thinking of Charles ...
Broadway World
December 17, 2008
Off-Broadway: Patrick Breen's Marking (directed by daughter, Elizabeth Gottlieb), The Stendahl Syndrome, The Substance of Fire, EL Doctorow's Drinks Before ...
Hamptons Independents
December 16, 2008
Yes, you can have your choice of one writer or one artist - but there's a premium if you want to mix in EL Doctorow or Julian Schnabel. ...
Tampabay.com
December 15, 2008
It has about 1600 students, awards no athletic scholarships and counts writer EL Doctorow, President Rutherford B. Hayes,
Actors Paul Newman and Allison ...
Artforum
December 13, 2008
Rick Moody, Wolfe's interlocutor for the evening, may as well have been interviewing EL Doctorow. This seemed emblematic of the blandly liberal, ...
Santa Cruz Sentinel
December 12, 2008
He staged "Ragtime," based on EL Doctorow's famous historical novel because he said, "I want kids to be aware that there's struggle in the world. ...
Asheville Citizen-Times
December 12, 2008
asheville - It's time to submit your entires for the "Meet The
Authors Writing Contest: Peter Matthiessen and EL Doctorow .'" eligible for a free trip to ...
Hartford Advocate
December 10, 2008
Yet, I suspect she owes as much of her inspiration to EL Doctorow as Dickens in the creation of a work with multiple plotlines and a large cast of fictional ...
fairfieldweekly.com
December 9, 2008
Yet, I suspect she owes as much of her inspiration to EL Doctorow as Dickens in the creation of a work with multiple plotlines and a large cast of fictional ...
Foster's Daily Democrat
December 6, 2008
... the longtime home to EL Doctorow and
Maya Angelou; the Knopf Publishing Group, a literary
institution that includes Toni Morrison and John Updike; ...
Gary Post Tribune
December 6, 2008
The musical is based on EL Doctorow's book "Ragtime" and follows the troubled lives of one family and those they encounter from 1906 to 1915. "Swing! ...
Long Beach Press-Telegram
December 4, 2008
The Bixby Knolls Literary Society has announced its December selection is "Ragtime," by EL Doctorow. It will be discussed at the next meeting, Wednesday at ...
Oxford Mail
November 28, 2008
... Herman Melville * Song of Solomon: Toni Morrison * Gilead: Marilynne Robinson * Tragedies: William Shakespeare * Philip Roth * EL Doctorow * John le Carre.
On Point Radio
November 28, 2008
A conversation with celebrated novelist EL Doctorow on creation from Genesis to Huck Finn, Hemingway to Einstein. By Jack Beatty Speaking to Tom in today's ...
Washington Post
November 27, 2008
"Ragtime," based on a 1975 novel by EL Doctorow, premiered on Broadway in 1998. It won Tony awards for its songs and its book. The show depicts New York at ...
Mrkische Allgemeine
November 24, 2008
Für den Meister des Horrorschockers bedeutete dies einen Ritterschlag, denn er reihte sich ein unter Berühmtheiten wie EL Doctorow und Salman Rushdie. ...
Santa Fe Reporter
November 19, 2008
(Novelist EL Doctorow used this incident in Ragtime and the late Norman Mailer played White in Milos Foreman's film version.) What Chabrol imagined he was ...
Durham Herald Sun
November 16, 2008
Also in the historical vein, Adam Braver has written a novel that has shades of Jim Bishop's "The Day Kennedy Was Shot" and EL Doctorow's "Ragtime. ...
Tampabay.com
November 15, 2008
In the second act of the show, adapted from a novel by EL Doctorow, Walker turns to revolution in a doomed effort to wrest justice from a racist society. ...
Tampabay.com
November 15, 2008
By Colette Bancroft, Times Book Editor Novelist EL Doctorow says it was gratifying to read recently that President-elect
Barack Obama has mentioned him as a ...
Tampabay.com
November 15, 2008
3 'Ragtime: The Musical': Play based on EL Doctorow's novel about events in turn of the century America, 7 pm Tuesday through Friday at
Pinellas County ...
Tampabay.com
November 14, 2008
By Terri Bryce Reeves, Times correspondent
Clearwater - If Edgar Lawrence "EL" Doctorow seems like the quiet, brooding type, blame it on his
parents for ...
New City Chicago
November 12, 2008
...
culture-language may be respected again at the highest level; writers might be brought back into the fold; our president may actually read EL Doctorow! ...
Tampabay.com
November 12, 2008
Meet the author: Meet critically acclaimed American author EL Doctorow at 10 am at the
Clearwater Main Library, 100 N Osceola Ave. An autograph session will ...
Tampabay.com
November 12, 2008
By Adam Newman, anewman@tampabay.com An evening with EL Doctorow: Widely regarded as one of America's pre-eminent novelists (The Book of Daniel, Ragtime, ...
Tampabay.com
November 11, 2008
Meet the author: Meet critically acclaimed American author EL Doctorow at 10 am Friday at the
Clearwater Main Library, 100 N Osceola Ave. ...
Connect Savannah.com
November 11, 2008
-Ale,
Bangkok When your question came in, Ale, I thought: At last, a chance to have it out with EL Doctorow. You remember the opening of Doctorow's ...
Tampabay.com
November 8, 2008
... lions of American
Literature come to town to talk about their writing: Billy Collins, former US poet laureate, and award-winning novelist EL Doctorow. ...
guardian.co.uk
November 7, 2008
He names Philip Roth and EL Doctorow among his favourite living writers. In his memoir Dreams From My Father, the late-night life he describes himself as ...
Washington Post Blogs
November 7, 2008
The president-elect's favorite
Authors are said to include Herman Melville, Toni Morrison, EL Doctorow and Philip Roth: an interesting lineup of American ...
Democracy Now
November 1, 2008
By the way, there'sa marvelous new novel by EL Doctorow, about Sherman's march through Georgia. It's great. It touches this very theme of the slave being ...
