L Doctorow’s novels regardless of their themes – war, gangster, romance, crime and so on.īilly Bathgate, since I have read two of E.L. Gee, fie on me, this is how I would figuratively feel when I read other E. But alas, I would be short of time because there were more plays I had to keep up with.
When the show ended, I would still sit into my armchair musing over the lines that had just had an impact on me and wait for its second showing for the next batch who may have missed it. Rather, the deep, emotional, narrative, and lyrical execution of the narrator was enough to hold me in fascination.
I would disregard the background and backup actors illustrating the settings, plots, and dialogues. Better films were made of “The Book of Daniel” (it was called, simply, “Daniel,”), “Ragtime” (featuring James Cagney in his final appearance in a feature film) and “Billy Bathgate,” starring Dustin Hoffman.I was like one of those members of the audience in a grand opera house, riveted on the presence of a passionate narrator, carried away by each and every line that went deeper into my heart until it displayed vivid imagination. Several of Doctorow’s novels were adapted for the screen, including “Welcome to Hard Times,” a film, starring Henry Fonda, that Doctorow (and most critics) assessed as dreadful. In addition to his wife and son, Doctorow is survived by two daughters, Jenny Doctorow Fe-Bornstein and Caroline Doctorow Gatewood, and four grandchildren.
(She later published a novel, “Pretty Redwing,” under the name Helen Henslee.) They married in Germany while Doctorow, who had been drafted, was in the Army. His family was a family of readers he was named for Edgar Allan Poe, a favorite of his father’s.ĭoctorow studied with the poet and critic John Crowe Ransom at Kenyon College in Ohio, where he earned a bachelor’s degree, then spent a year in the graduate program in drama at Columbia, where he met his wife, Helen Setzer, then an aspiring actress. His father, David, had a store that sold musical instruments in midtown Manhattan his mother, Rose, played the piano. His grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Russia.
Edgar Lawrence Doctorow was born in the Bronx on Jan.
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