Order of E.L. Doctorow Books
E.L. Doctorow (1931-2015) was an American author, best known for the novel Ragtime. After growing up in New York, Doctorow attended Kenyon College in Ohio where he majored in philosophy and took part in theatre. He graduated with honours and then went to Columbia University where he finished a year of graduate work in English drama. At that point, he was drafted into the U.S. Army, with whom he served as a corporal in the signal corps in Germany during post-war Allied occupation. Doctorow went home to New York and read for a motion picture company. After reading so many westerns, he got the idea for his first novel (Welcome to Hard Times), which began as a parody, but ended up as a serious entry into the genre. Doctorow passed away in July 2015 of lung cancer, while living in New York City.
E.L. Doctorow became a published author in 1960 with the aforementioned novel Welcome to Hard Times. Below is a list of E.L. Doctorow’s books in order of when they were originally released:
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Welcome to Hard Times | (1960) | |
Big As Life | (1966) | |
The Book of Daniel | (1971) | |
Ragtime | (1975) | |
Drinks Before Dinner | (1979) | |
Loon Lake | (1980) | |
American Anthem | (1982) | |
World’s Fair | (1985) | |
The Waterworks | (1994) | |
City of God | (2000) | |
The March | (2005) | |
Homer & Langley | (2009) | |
Andrew’s Brain | (2014) |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Three Screenplays: Daniel, Ragtime, Loon Lake | (2003) | |
Sweet Land Stories | (2004) | |
Poems for Life: A Special Collection of Poetry | (2011) | |
All the Time in the World | (2011) |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Essays and Conversations | (1983) | |
Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution: Selected Essays, 1977-1992 | (1993) | |
Poets and Presidents: Selected Essays, 1977-92 | (1994) | |
Lamentation: 9/11 | (2002) | |
Reporting the Universe | (2003) | |
Creationists: Selected Essays, 1993-2006 | (2006) |
Publication Order of Random House Reader’s Circle Books
Lives of the Poets | (1984) | |
Billy Bathgate | (1989) | |
Tender at the Bone | (1998) | |
Anthropology of an American Girl | (2003) | |
The White Garden | (2009) | |
Juliet | (2010) | |
The Wives of Henry Oades | (2010) | |
Delta Girls | (2010) | |
The Pull of the Moon | (2010) | |
The Definition of Wind | (2011) | |
When We Were Friends | (2011) | |
Game of Secrets | (2011) | |
The Homecoming of Samuel Lake | (2011) | |
Invisible | (2012) | |
The Lullaby of Polish Girls | (2013) | |
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Publication Order of Anthologies
Early Sorrow: Ten Stories of Youth | (1986) | |
Writing New York | (1998) | |
The Best American Short Stories 2000 | (2000) | |
The Good Parts | (2000) | |
Writers on Writing | (2001) |
Notes: Welcome to Hard Times was also published as Bad Man from Bodie. Poems for Life also contains poems by Allen Ginsberg, David Mamet, Tom Wolfe, Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen Sondheim, Kurt Vonnegut, Elie Wisel and others.