Doctorow, E. L.

Three remarkable families lives' become entwined with Henry Ford, Harry Houdini, J.P. Morgan, Theodore Dreiser, Sigmund Freud, and Emiliano Zapata at the turn of the century.

Homer and Langley Collyer, two brothers, live as hermits after Langley returns from WWI, and as Homer goes blind, the two hoard newspapers and try to create meaning for themselves amid a series of visits from outsiders such as immigrants, prostitutes, government agents, and jazz musicians.

Presents an historical novel that centers around William Tecumseh Sherman's march through Georgia and the Carolinas and those he encounters along the way which include a freed slave girl named Pearl; a Union regimental surgeon, Colonel Sartorius; Emily Thompson, the daughter of a Southern judge; and two misfit soldiers.

Contains a series of five short stories that deal with poverty, love, faith, and abuse of power.

One rainy morning in 1871 young Martin Pemberton, walking down Broadway in lower Manhattan, sees in a passing horse-drawn omnibus several old men in black, one of whom he recognizes as his supposedly dead and buried father.

During the Great Depression a young man follows a private train to Loon Lake, the hidden wilderness estate of one of the country's richest men.

A historical novel based on William Tecumseh Sherman's march through Georgia and the Carolinas and the people he encounters along the way, including a freed slave girl named Pearl, Union regimental surgeon Colonel Sartorius, Emily Thompson, the daughter of a Southern judge, and two misfit soldiers.