Order of E.L. Doctorow Books

E.L. Doctorow (1931-2015) was an American writer renowned for his novel Ragtime. Raised in New York, he attended Kenyon College in Ohio, majoring in philosophy and participating in theatre. He graduated with honors and then pursued a year of graduate studies in English drama at Columbia University. Shortly thereafter, he was drafted into the U.S. Army, serving as a corporal in the signal corps in Germany during the post-war Allied occupation. Upon returning to New York, Doctorow worked for a motion picture company. After reading numerous westerns, he conceived the idea for his debut novel, Welcome to Hard Times, which started as a parody but evolved into a serious contribution to the genre. Doctorow died in July 2015 from lung cancer while residing in New York City. He became a published author in 1960 with Welcome to Hard Times. Below is a list of E.L. Doctorow’s books in the order of their original release:

E.L. Doctorow became a published novelist in 1960 with the 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 Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Welcome to Hard Times	(1960)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Big As Life	(1966)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Book of Daniel	(1971)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Ragtime	(1975)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Drinks Before Dinner	(1979)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Loon Lake	(1980)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
American Anthem (With: J.C. Suares)	(1982)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
World's Fair	(1985)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Waterworks	(1994)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
City of God	(2000)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The March	(2005)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Homer & Langley	(2009)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Andrew's Brain	(2014)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Short Story Collections Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Three Screenplays: Daniel, Ragtime, Loon Lake	(2003)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Sweet Land Stories	(2004)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Poems for Life: A Special Collection of Poetry	(2011)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
All the Time in the World	(2011)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Essays and Conversations	(1983)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution: Selected Essays, 1977-1992	(1993)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Poets and Presidents: Selected Essays, 1977-92	(1994)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Lamentation: 9/11	(2002)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Creationists: Selected Essays, 1993-2006	(2006)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Random House Reader's Circle Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Lives of the Poets	(1984)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Billy Bathgate	(1989)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Tender at the Bone (By: Ruth Reichl)	(1998)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Anthropology of an American Girl (By: Hilary Thayer Hamann)	(2003)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The White Garden (By: Stephanie Barron)	(2009)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Juliet (By: Anne Fortier)	(2010)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Wives of Henry Oades (By: Johanna Moran)	(2010)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Delta Girls (By: Gayle Brandeis)	(2010)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Pull of the Moon (By: Elizabeth Berg)	(2010)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Definition of Wind (By: Ellen Block)	(2011)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
When We Were Friends (By: Elizabeth Joy Arnold)	(2011)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Game of Secrets (By: Dawn Tripp)	(2011)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Homecoming of Samuel Lake (By: Jenny Wingfield)	(2011)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Invisible (By: Carla Buckley)	(2012)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Lullaby of Polish Girls (By: Dagmara Dominczyk)	(2013)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
The American Newness (By: Irving Howe)	(1986)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Highbrow/Lowbrow (By: Lawrence W. Levine)	(1988)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Revolutions (By: David Brion Davis)	(1990)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Playing in the Dark (By: Toni Morrison)	(1992)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Southern Tradition (By: Eugene D. Genovese)	(1994)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Writing Was Everything (By: Alfred Kazin)	(1998)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Dissent of the Governed (By: Stephen L. Carter)	(1998)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Achieving Our Country (By: Richard M. Rorty)	(1999)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Real American Dream (By: Andrew Delbanco)	(1999)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
To Be the Poet (By: Maxine Hong Kingston)	(2002)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Reporting the Universe	(2003)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Circles and Lines (By: John Putnam Demos)	(2004)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Architecture as Signs and Systems (By: Robert Venturi)	(2004)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Reshaping the Work-Family Debate (By: Joan C. Williams)	(2010)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Tiger Writing (By: Gish Jen)	(2013)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Tiger Writing (By: Gish Jen)	(2013)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Three Songs, Three Singers, Three Nations (By: Greil Marcus)	(2015)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Just a Journalist (By: Linda Greenhouse)	(2017)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Anthologies Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Early Sorrow: Ten Stories of Youth	(1986)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Best American Short Stories 2000	(2000)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Good Parts	(2000)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

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