Edgar Lawrence Doctorow - Edgar Lawrence Doctorow is widely recognized as one of America's great masters of the historical novel.
His most recent work, The March (2005), is a fictional account of General William Tecumseh Sherman's infamous military rampage from the burned-out ruins of Atlanta to the Carolinas, leaving a path of destruction that affected the South for generations. The March received the 2006 PEN/Faulkner Award and the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the 2005 National Book Award.
Mr. Doctorow served as senior editor for the New American Library from 1959-1964 and editor-in-chief of Dial Press from 1964-1969. Since 1969, Doctorow has devoted his time to writing and teaching.
He has been associated with several colleges and universities, including the University of California, Irvine; Sarah Lawrence College; Yale University Drama School; and Princeton University. Currently, he serves as the Lewis and Loretta Gluckman Professor in American Letters at New York University.
Among other honors, Mr. Doctorow was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award and the William Dean Howells medal of the American Academy of Arts & Letters for Billy Bathgate (1990); the National Book Award for World's Fair (1986); and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Ragtime (1976).
In 1984, he was made a member of the American Academy and National Institute of Arts and Letters. He is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1972, and was awarded a National Humanities Medal in 1998.
Roger Rosenblatt - Roger Rosenblatt is a journalist, author, playwright, and teacher. William Safire of the New York Times wrote that his work represents "some of the most profound and stylish writing in America today." His television essays for "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" on PBS have won a Peabody and an Emmy award. His essays for TIME magazine have won two George Polk Awards, awards from the American Bar Association, the Overseas Press Club, and others.
Roger's journalism career began in 1975 as literary editor of The New Republic. He has also been a columnist and editor-at-large for Life magazine, the editor of U.S. News & World Report, a columnist and editorial board member of The Washington Post and editor-at-large of TIME, Inc. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, The New Republic, Esquire and elsewhere.
He is the author of ten books, including a collection of his writings, The Man in the Water, Coming Apart: A Memoir of the Harvard Wars of 1969, and the national bestseller, Rules for Aging. His book Children of War (1983) won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His most recent book, Lapham Rising (2006), his first novel, was loosely based on the lecture he delivered on major trends of the 20th century at Chautauqua in 2004.
Roger is currently a professor in the English department at Stony Brook University, where he teaches in the writing program at Stony Brook Southampton. He was most recently the Edward R. Murrow Visiting Professor of the Practice of the Press and Public Policy at Harvard University and held the Parsons Family Chair at the Southampton graduate campus of Long Island University.
