I was very sorry to hear of the passing of E. L. Doctorow, a truly great American artist whose work and career have long inspired in me a tremendous sense of gratitude. Three years ago, Don DeLillo, ...

E. L. Doctorow died on Tuesday in Manhattan. He was eighty-four. Widely celebrated for his often formally adventurous historical novels—“The Book of Daniel,” “Ragtime,” “Billy Bathgate,” and “The ...

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E.L. Doctorow, who died yesterday, wrote historical novels that never ran the risk of being merely antiquarian. The past was never really dead for Doctorow, but always connected to present-day ...

E.L. Doctorow, one of America’s most accomplished novelists of recent decades who was best known for his historical fiction, died Tuesday at the age of 84, US media reports said. The award-winning ...

The legendary novelist, teacher, editor, political activist, onetime reservations clerk at La Guardia Airport, and New Yorker, E.L. Doctorow, died of complications from lung cancer at age 84 on ...

Just in time for Trump’s inauguration — a 50-year-old tale of robber barons, racists, corrupt officials, and other denizens of America. (The annotated opening pages of our reviewer’s copy of “Ragtime, ...

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E.L. Doctorow, the American author best known for such novels as Ragtime and The March, died on Tuesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 84. Born in the Bronx in 1931, Edgar Lawrence, as he was ...

With news of the death of literary legend E.L. Doctorow, who died Tuesday of complications from lung cancer at 84, fellow authors, fans and those he inspired took to social media to mourn his loss and ...

I had the privilege of meeting E.L. Doctorow twice — a few years ago in San Francisco and a few decades ago in Toronto when I was an aspiring writer attending my first-ever writing conference. I’ll ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the first chapter of his classic novel Ragtime, E.L. Doctorow memorably describes an afternoon shared by Carl Jung and Sigmund ...