A Morning with E.L. Doctorow at the Clearwater Main LibraryCLEARWATER – The Clearwater Main Library will host noted author E.L. Doctorow on Friday, Nov. 14, at 10 a.m. E.L. Doctorow is an American author known for his critically acclaimed and award-winning fiction that covers the country’s social history from the Civil War to the present. Among a list of well-known authors including Philip Roth, Toni Morrison, John Updike, Saul Bellow, and Don DeLillo, Doctorow is considered one of the most talented, ambitious, and admired novelists of the second half of the twentieth century. He has received numerous awards including the National Book Award, two National Book Critics Circle Awards, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Edith Wharton Citation for Fiction, the William Dean Howell Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the presidentially conferred National Humanities Medal. E.L. Doctorow’s works include: Welcome to Hard Times, The Book of Daniel, Ragtime, World’s Fair, Billy Bathgate, City of God, and The March. Copies of Doctorow’s book will be on sale. An autograph session will follow the lecture. The Clearwater Main Library is located at 100 N. Osceola Ave. For more information, call 562-4970 ext. 5284.
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