E.L. Doctorow's Birthday

Edgar Lawrence Doctorow was born January 6, 1931 in New York, New York and is the author of several critically acclaimed novels that blend history and social criticism.

Books:

(1960) Welcome to Hard Times
(1966) Big As Life
(1971) The Book of Daniel. Nominated for a National Book Award, it fictionalized the story of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed in 1953 for giving nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union.
(1975) Ragtime. After receiving the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction and the Arts and Letters Award, it was transformed into a film in 1980 and a musical in 1998.
(1979) Drinks Before Dinner (play)
(1980) Loon Lake
(1982) American Anthem
(1984) Lives of the Poets: Six Stories and a Novella
(1985) World's Fair. Received the 1986 National Book Award.
(1989) Billy Bathgate. Nominated for the Pulitzer and won the PEN/Faulkner award. Made into a major motion picture in 1991, which Doctorow - along with most of those involved in its production - has disowned.
(1994) Waterworks
(2000) City of God (novel)
(2003) Reporting the Universe (nonfiction)
(2004) Sweet Land Stories
(2005) The March

I have a book autographed by E.L. Doctorow and have read many of his books.