E. L. Doctorow

Hard Times is the name of a town in the barren hills of the Dakota Territory. To this town there comes one day one of the reckless sociopaths who wander the West to kill and rape and pillage....

A freelance writer sees in a passing stagecoach several elderly men, one of whom he recognizes as his supposedly dead and buried father....

Innocence is lost to unforgettable experience in these brilliant stories by E. L. Doctorow, as full of mystery and meaning as any of the longer works by this American master....

Speaking from an unknown place and to an unknown interlocutor, Andrew is thinking, Andrew is talking, Andrew is telling the story of his life, his loves, and the tragedies that have led him to this place and point in time....

Doctorow returns with an enthralling collection of brilliant, startling short fiction about people who, as the author notes in his Preface, are somehow “distinct from their surroundings—people in some sort of contest with the prevailing world”....

All the promises of a generation culminate in a single great World's Fair....

The luminous transformation of fact into fiction that is E. L. Doctorow's trademark comes to triumphant fruition in Billy Bathgate, a peerless coming-of-age tale and one of Doctorow's boldest and most beloved best sellers....

Ranging over the American continent from Alaska to Washington, D.C., these superb short works are crafted with all the weight and resonance for which E. L. Doctorow is famous....

It is the Great Depression of the 1930s, and a passionate young man from Paterson, New Jersey, leaves home to find his fortune....

This dazzlingly inventive masterwork emerges as the American novel listeners have been thirsting for: a defining document of our times, a narrative of the 20th century written for the 21st....

The central figure of this novel is a young man whose parents were executed for conspiring to steal atomic secrets for Russia....

A superb collection of 15 stories by an American master, E. L. Doctorow....

One lazy Sunday afternoon, the famous escape artist Harry Houdini swerves his car into a telephone pole....

Collected for the first time, here are the New York stories of one of the 20th century’s definitive chroniclers of the city - the speakeasies and highballs, social climbers and cinema stars, mistresses and powerbrokers, unsparingly observed by a popular American master of realism....

Brilliant brothers Langley and Homer Collyer are born into bourgeois New York comfort in settled times. But changes are coming....

In 1864, after Union general William Tecumseh Sherman burned Atlanta, he marched his sixty thousand troops east through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas....

Homer and Langley Collyer are brothers - the one blind and deeply intuitive, the other damaged into madness, or perhaps greatness, by mustard gas in the Great War....

In Creationists, Doctorow considers creativity in its many forms: from the literary to the comic to the cosmic....