![]() ![]() ![]() In addition to his wife and son, Doctorow is survived by two daughters, Jenny Doctorow Fe-Bornstein and Caroline Doctorow Gatewood, and four grandchildren. ![]() (She later published a novel, “Pretty Redwing,” under the name Helen Henslee.) They married in Germany while Doctorow, who had been drafted, was in the Army. His family was a family of readers he was named for Edgar Allan Poe, a favorite of his father’s.ĭoctorow studied with the poet and critic John Crowe Ransom at Kenyon College in Ohio, where he earned a bachelor’s degree, then spent a year in the graduate program in drama at Columbia, where he met his wife, Helen Setzer, then an aspiring actress. His father, David, had a store that sold musical instruments in midtown Manhattan his mother, Rose, played the piano. His grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Russia. Edgar Lawrence Doctorow was born in the Bronx on Jan. ![]()
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