E. L. Doctorow is the author of The Book of Daniel, Ragtime, World’s Fair, Billy Bathgate, The Waterworks, and City of God. He has also published Lives of the Poets, a story collection, and Selected Essays: Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution.

Doctorow is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Book Award, two National Book Critics’ Circle Awards, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Commonwealth Award, the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a presidentially conferred National Humanities Medal. His story collection Sweet Land Stories was published in 2004.