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Edgar Lawrence Doctorow

E. L. Doctorow 2007 Chicago Tribune Literary Prize

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  • ABOUT Edgar Lawrence Doctorow

    E. L. Doctorow has written many acclaimed novels, among them The Book of Daniel, Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, and Homer and Langley. Doctorow majored in philosophy at Kenyon College. Following graduate work at Columbia and a stint in the army, he worked as an editor at New American Library and Dial Press for much of the 1960s. He earned a National Book Critics Circle Award for World’s Fair. His novel The March won the PEN/Faulkner award and was a Pulitzer finalist.  He teaches at New York University. Profile

  • ABOUT Julia Keller

    Julia Keller won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 2005 and has been a cultural critic at the Chicago Tribune since late 1998. She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English from Marshall University and her doctorate in English from Ohio State University. In the fall of 2006, she was McGraw Professor of Writing at Princeton University. Keller is also guest essayist on the public television program The Newshour with Jim Lehrer. Her book Mr. Gatling’s Terrible Marvel: The Gun That Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius Who Invented It was published in 2008. Profile

  • ABOUT Ann Marie Lipinski

    Ann Marie Lipinski is the Vice President for Civic Engagement at the University of Chicago, overseeing an effort to create a new model for an urban research institution acting in partnership with its city. She is also a senior lecturer in the College. Lipinski is a former editor of the Chicago Tribune, where she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting. Under her stewardship, the Tribune published stories that freed innocent prisoners from death row and brought about the state’s moratorium on the death penalty, revitalized the South Side lakefront, and scrutinized education initiatives. Profile
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The historian can tell you what happened, but it seems to me the novelist can tell you what it felt like.       
Join Ann Marie Lipinski and Julia Keller in this conversation with author E. L. Doctorow upon his acceptance of the 2007 Chicago Tribune Literary Prize. Doctorow muses on the blurry overlap between journalism and the novel and astutely pinpoints himself within the western literary tradition. He opines on his namesake, Edgar Allen Poe, and his childhood discoveries of Jack London and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Throughout, Doctorow comments on niche media and the crisscrossing relationships that connect and distinguish radio and television, novels and film.

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Edgar Lawrence Doctorow, 2007, Chicago Tribune, Literary Prize, historical fiction, novel

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