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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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The 84-year-old fiction author E.L. Doctorow died Tuesday, and the man who was remembered by The New York Times as a "relentless experimenter" left behind a legacy of admired novels and remarkable ...

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, ...

E.L. Doctorow, the author of popular novels grounded in American history including “Ragtime” and “Billy Bathgate,” has died at age 84, his publisher said on Tuesday. A spokeswoman for the Random House ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — Few minds were as playful and as serious as E.L. Doctorow’s. Conjurer of old-time gangsters and ragtime stars. Commentator on wars and presidents and the laws of the land. Student of ...