Died Edgar Lawrence Doctorou

On Tuesday, July 21, in New York, at the age of 84, American writer Edgar Lawrence Doctorou died.

According to The New York Times with reference to the writer's son, the cause of death was complications from lung cancer.

Edgar Lawrence Doctorou was born in 1931 in New York in a family of Jewish immigrants from Belarus, graduated from Kenion College in Ohio and a magistracy in philology at the Columbia University.

In the second half of the 1950s, the doctoral worked in the script department of the Columbia Pictures film studio, in the 1960s was the editor of the New American Library and Dial Press publishers. Since the late 60s, he completely devoted himself to literary and teaching, taught at the college of Sarah Lorens, the Yale Drama School, Princeton, California and New York Universities.

The first novel by Doctorow, “Welcome in difficult times,” was released in 1960, two more followed him. The real bestseller was the novel Ragtaym (1975), considered one of the main works of American historical prose of the 20th century. Ragtaym was translated into many foreign languages ​​(Russian translation by Vasily Aksenov, 1978), brought the writer several prestigious literary awards. In 1981, Milos Forman was filmed by the book, in 1998, the Ragtaym musical was put on Broadway.

The films were shot according to two more novels by Doctor of Drummer - in 1983, the picture of Sidney Lyumet on the novel “The Book of Daniel” (1971), on the script of the gangster militant “Billy Batheat” (1991), according to the 1989 novel, worked together with Tom Stoppard.

In addition to the twelve novels, Doctorou published four stories collections (the latter was released in 2011), wrote literary, critical and cultural essays and articles, his play “Drins Before Dinner” was staged in the New York Shakespearean Theater.