[Cwgrad-announcements] FW: E. L. Doctorow at UC Irvine

[Amanda J Labagnara]

The 2006-2007 Chancellor's Distinguished Fellows Series

presents

LITERATURE AND RELIGION

by

E.L. Doctorow
Lewis and Loretta Glucksman Professor in American Letters
New York University


Thursday, March 8, 2007
7:00pm
Crystal Cove Auditorium

Sponsored by the School of Humanities, Department of History,
Department of English, and the Humanities Center

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

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E. L. Doctorow's work has been published in thirty languages.  His most
recent novel, "The March," won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the
PEN/Faulkner award, and was a New York Times bestseller. His other novels
include "Ragtime" and "Billy Bathgate," "City of God," "Loon Lake," and
"World's Fair".  He's been awarded the William
Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the
National Humanities Medal, conferred by President Clinton.

Reviewing "The March", Michiko Kakutani wrote in the New York Times that
Doctorow "manages to weld the personal and the mythic into a thrilling and
poignant story. . . . an Iliad-like portrait of war as a primeval human
affliction."  Richard Eder, the Pulitzer-Prize winning critic, wrote in the
L.A. Times that, while "The March" deals with real historical moments, "he
transforms them with a freedom and incandescence that have no more to do
with the general run of historical fiction than do "War and Peace" and "The
Charterhouse of
Parma.""  John Updike wrote in The New Yorker that "The March"
"combines the author's saturnine strengths with an elegiac compassion and
prose of a glittering, swift-moving economy."

Few people know that E.L. Doctorow taught in the UCI Writing Program in the
late sixties, at the beginning of his career.  It was at UCI that he
finished "The Book of Daniel", which established him as a major American
novelist.  This visit will be his first to UCI since then.

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The talk is free and open to the public.  For additional information please
contact the UCI Department of History at (949) 824-6521.


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Courtney Santos
courtney.santos at email.ucr.edu
Graduate Student, Creative Writing and
Writing for the Performing Arts, 
University of California, Riverside