Edgar Lawrence Dr. (New York, January 6, 1931-Ibidem, July 21, 2015) was a US novelist. In the works of History and Social Critique.

Doctorow grew up in the Bronx neighborhood, New York, educated by his parents, who were children of Russian Jewish emigrants. In the Bronx Science High School he stood out in artistic creation, while reading books of all kinds; He subsequently continued his education at Kenyon School, where he studied with John Crowe Ransom. After graduating with honors in 1952, he worked at Columbia University, before being enrolled in the US military and sent to Germany. He began his race as a reader in Columbia Pictures and later he was editor of the New American Library at the beginning of the 1960s; During the same decade he was also the main editor of Dial Press, from 1964 to 1969.