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These are the stories of Edgar Allan Poe
Not exactly the boy next door
—from POEtry, a rock opera by Lou Reed and Robert Wilson
About E. L. Doctorow
E.L. Doctorow’s work has been published in thirty languages. His novels include The March, City of God, Welcome to Hard Times, The Book of Daniel, Ragtime, Loon Lake, Lives of the Poets, World’s Fair, Billy Bathgate, and The Waterworks. Among his honors are a National Book Award, two Pen/ Faulkner Awards, three National Book Critics Circle awards, the Edith Wharton Citation for Fiction, the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the residentially conferred National Humanities Medal. He lives in New York.
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