His parody of the novel Ragtime won him a Playboy Humor Award.

While it wasn't familiar to many (unlike the novel "Ragtime," which is revered and taught), we had it as a point of reference.

Also scheduled to be argued is a claim by E. L. Doctorow, author of the novel "Ragtime," who says he is owed $137,461 from the time before the bankruptcy.

In the novel Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow, the fountain is the spot where Younger Brother would come to pick up prostitutes.

The story had an influence on E. L. Doctorow's 1975 novel Ragtime, which uses similar plot elements and has a protagonist named "Coalhouse Walker".

The 1975 historical fiction novel Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow was adapted into the two works below:

In 1976 New Rochelle resident E.L. Doctorow wrote the novel Ragtime, which would later become a major Broadway musical.

Morgan appears in E. L. Doctorow's novel Ragtime, and in the Broadway musical of the same name.

Whitman is a character in E.L. Doctorow's historical novel Ragtime (although he does not figure significantly in the later film based on the novel).

The novel Ragtime was written by New Rochelle resident E. L. Doctorow and set in New Rochelle.