The Bronx-born E.L. (Edgar Lawrence) Doctorow made the past come alive through his many novels "among them Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, The Book of Daniel, World Fair, and Loon Lake. He had been named after Edgar Allan Poe, whom he often disparaged as America's "greatest bad writer." During his long career, Doctorow would win the PEN/Faulkner Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the…
SOURCE: WNYC at 02:35PM on July 22, 2015