Edgar Lawrence Doctorow (born January 6, 1931, New York, New York) is the current Glucksman Chair in American Letters at New York University.

Works include:

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.

After graduating from Kenyon College in the class of 1953, he was senior editor for New American Library in the early 1960s.