E. L. Doctorow: Representations of Carnivalesque in Welcome to Hard Times

Welcome to Hard Times

Edgar Lawrence Doctorow was an American novelist who  wrote twelve novels, three volumes of short fiction and a stage drama. They included the award-winning novels Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, The March, and Welcome to Hard Times. Doctorow was honoured with the National Humanities Medal (1998), the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction (2012), the […]