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:
- The Book of Daniel (1971). Nominated for a National Book Award.
- Ragtime (1975). Received the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction and the Arts and Letters Award.
- Loon Lake (1980)
- Lives of the Poets: Six Stories and a Novella
- World's Fair. Received the 1986 National Book Award.
- Billy Bathgate (1989)
After graduating from Kenyon College in the class of 1953, he was senior editor for New American Library in the early 1960s.