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- Considered one of the most important American novelists of the 20th century, Doctorow, who died in 2015, was known for his imaginative manipulation of popular genres, use of unconventional narrative forms, and for placing fictional characters and events within recognizable historical contexts.
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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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Jul 22, 2015 · Doctorow was more than a fiction writer. He was a bridge to an older America. E.L. Doctorow, who died yesterday, wrote historical novels that never ran the risk of being merely antiquarian.
Jul 22, 2015 · He didn't care for journalism's austerities, but borrowed liberally from history to craft his books. The late, great novelist was a gentleman who spun untruths, in order to better...
- Lynn Neary
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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Served in the U.S. Army in Germany, early 1950s; reader for Columbia Pictures, 1956–59; senior editor, New American Library, 1959–64; published first novel, Welcome to Hard Times, 1960; editor-in-chief, Dial Press, 1964–69; teacher at several colleges and universities, including Sarah Lawrence College, Yale University Drama School, Princeton Univer...
E. L. Doctorow is one of the most accomplished American novelists of the second half of the 20th Century, often considered in an elite company with Toni Morrison, Saul Bellow, John Updike, Philip Roth and only a few others. His epic historical fiction evokes the 19th and 20th centuries, often boldly introducing historical figures into imagined situ...
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New York Times, December 2, 1999, p. B17; March 9, 2000, p. E1; September 20, 2005, p. E1; September 27, 2005, p. E1; January 21, 2006, p. B7. Publishers Weekly, June 12, 2006, p. 40. Time, February 26, 2006. U.S. News & World Report, October 10, 2005, p. 22. Washington Post, May 25, 2004, p. C1; October 1, 2005, p. C1.
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"E. L. Doctorow," Fantastic Fiction, http://fantasticfiction.co.uk/d/e-l-doctorow/(August 19, 2006). "E. L. Doctorow," New York State Writers Institute, http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/doctorow.html (August 19, 2006) "Featured Author: E. L. Doctorow," New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/03/05/specials/doctorow/html (August 19, 2006). "'The March' wins National Book Critics Circle prize," CNN.com, http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/03/03/book.award.ap/index.html (March 7, 2006).
Jul 23, 2015 · T he American writer EL Doctorow, who died on Tuesday in New York at the age of 84, represented a series of paradoxes. He was a committed literary modernist who almost never depicted his own...
Jul 23, 2015 · EL Doctorow: the great American novelist of the past 100 years. Read more. Doctorow’s trick, worthy of Bugs Bunny himself, was to turn that melancholy equation inside out, like an old...
