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“Ragtime” is a loving, beautifully mounted, graceful film that creates its characters with great clarity. We understand where everyone stands, and most of the time we even know why. Forman surrounds them with some of the other characters from the Doctorow novel (including Harry Houdini, Teddy Roosevelt, and Norman Mailer as the architect ...
A kaleidoscope of tales from E.L. Doctorow's eponymous novel evokes life in pre-World War I New York City. A white family find a black baby in their yard and takes on...
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- Milos Forman
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- James Cagney
E.L. Doctorow (born January 6, 1931, Bronx, New York, U.S.—died July 21, 2015, New York, New York) was an American novelist known for his skillful manipulation of traditional genres.
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Our own Fitzgerald. His was the most natural and unforced of the three authorial voices, and his plots required minimal invention. And his characters were not exotics nor self traumatising...
Jul 22, 2015 · E.L. Doctorow, who died Tuesday of complications from lung cancer at 84, was perhaps the most American novelist of his generation. More than Philip Roth or John Updike, more even than Norman...
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E.L. Doctorow was born on January 6, 1931 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Daniel (1983), Wakefield (2016) and Billy Bathgate (1991). He was married to Helen Setzer.
Ragtime is a novel by E. L. Doctorow, first published in 1975. The sweeping historical fiction occurs in the area of New York City between 1902 and 1912. Ragtime was ranked number 86 among Modern Library's 100 Best Novels in 1998. Time magazine included Ragtime in its list of 100 Best English-Language Novels from 1923 to 2005.
