Aka Joe of Paterson, Loon Lake NY autumn 1936.
Employed Bennett Autobody Number Six, headlight man, winter 1936.
Enrolled Williams College September 1937. Letters in Lacrosse,
Swimming. Graduated cum laude , honors in Political Science, 1941.
Voted by classmates Captain ROTC and Most Likely to Succeed.
Commissioned Second Lieutenant U.S. Air Corps.
Legal name change Joseph Paterson Bennett, June 1941.
Assigned newly formed Office of Strategic Services 1942
parachuting into France in black sweater flight jacket trousers
black boots false passport black wool cap black parachute
pockets of francs four thousand feet into windy void
face blackened teeth blackened, heart blackened dropping into blackness.
Awarded Bronze Star with oak leaf cluster 1943.
Awarded Silver Star with oak leaf cluster 1944.
Decommissioned 1945 rank of Major, Office of Strategic Services.
Appointed organization staff Central Intelligence Agency 1947.
Married Dru Channing Smith 1947, divorced 1950; no issue.
Married Kimberly Andrea Kennedy 1951, divorced 1954; no issue.
Continuous service Central Intelligence Agency to resignation
1974. Retiring rank Deputy Assistant Director.
Retired US State Department rank of Ambassador 1975.
Chairman and Chief Operating Officer Bennett Foundation.
Board of Directors James-Pennsylvania Steel Corporation.
Board of Directors Chilean-American Copper Corporation.
Trustee Jordan and Naismith colleges, Rhinebeck NY.
Trustee Miss Morris’ School for Young Women, Briarcliff Manor NY.
Member Knickerbocker, Acropolis, New York; Silks, Saratoga Springs;
Rhode Island Keel, Newport.
Master of Loon Lake.

E. L. DOCTOROW’S work has been published
in thirty languages. His novels include City of
God, Welcome to HardTimes, The Bookof
Daniel, Ragtime, Livesof the Poets, World’s Fair,
Billy Bathgate, The Waterworks, and The March.
Among his honors are the National Book Award,
three National Book Critics Circle awards, two
PEN/Faulkner Awards, the Edith Wharton
Citation for Fiction, the William Dean Howells
Medal of the American Academy of Arts and
Letters, and the presidentially conferred National
Humanities Medal. He lives in New York.