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The monumental Ragtime screenplay he wrote for director Robert Altman was to have been filmed as either a six-hour feature film or a ten-hour television series. Doctorow's script for Daniel was made into a feature film by director Sidney Lumet in 1983. Published here for the first time, his scripts reveal a new aspect of this writer's remarkable talents and offer film students and other cineastes unique insight into the complex relationship of literature and motion pictures.Įach of these screenplays has undergone a different fate.

Doctorow has also played an active role in transforming his novels into films, writing screenplay adaptations of three of his works― The Book of Daniel, Ragtime, and Loon Lake. Winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award (twice), the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the National Humanities Medal, he is the author of nine novels that have explored the drama of American life from the late nineteenth century to the present. Doctorow is one of America's most accomplished and acclaimed living writers. DOCTOROW TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0801872014. Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Winner of the PEN/Faulkner, and a second National Book Critics Circle Award in 2006 for "The March". Winner of the National Book Award in 1986 for "World's Fair". Winner of the very first National Book Critics Circle Award in 1976 for "Ragtime". This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. So to be irreverent to myth, to play with it, let in some light and air, to try to combust it back into history, is to risk being seen as someone who distorts truth" (E. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth. That's why every generation writes it anew. Doctorow's remarks, meticulous commentary by Film and American Literature Professor Paul Levine, and Interviews with Doctorow and Lumet coalesce to form a provocative inquiry into the process of artistic alchemy that attempts the nearly impossible: The translation of fiction into film" (Booklist). Here are the screenplays for 'Daniel' (produced in 1983 under the direction of Sidney Lumet), 'Ragtime', a magnificent adaptation that perfectly mirrors the panoramic novel, but was never made (a much shorter screenplay was commissioned for the Milos Forman film), and 'Loon Lake', which has yet to be produced. Because Doctorow is profoundly intrigued with film's seductiveness, he has performed this task to fine effect. "Adapting novels for movies is a tricky and often thankless endeavor. Doctorow's achievement as a playwright and screenwriter, finally recognized. Doctorow's "Three Screenplays: Daniel, Ragtime, Loon Lake". Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only by a University Press.

Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the Softcover Edition. Doctorow's finest and most underrated achievements.