Doctorow spent several years in the publishing sector before devoting himself exclusively to writing and teaching. From 19591964, he served as senior editor for New American Library and from 19641969, as editor in chief of Dial Press. Controversial in content and original in style, Doctorow's work often involves serious philosophical probings and the placement of historical figures in unusual and unpredictable situations and settings and challenge the limits of the literary genres on which he draws. In 1960, he published his first novel, a Western, Welcome to Hard Times, inspired by his employment as a script reader for Columbia Pictures in the late 1950s. Using the traditional form of a Western plot, he created an allegory of good and evil. In his second novel, Big as Life (1966), Doctorow explored the genre of science fiction in a satire set in a future New York. In 1971, Doctorow finally established his position as a major American writer by publishing The Book of Daniel.......
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