![]() ![]() He also authored a play, Drinks before Dinner, and three books of short fiction, and he published hundreds of articles and essays on literature and on political issues from a left-liberal standpoint.Įdgar Lawrence Doctorow was born in 1931 in the Bronx, the child of first-generation Americans of Russian-Jewish ancestry. By all public accounts, he also seems to have been a thoroughly decent person.ĭoctorow wrote a dozen novels, including The Book of Daniel (1971), Ragtime (1975), World’s Fair (1985), Billy Bathgate (1989) and The March (2005). Even if not possessed of the most inspired artistic gifts, he represented something honest and principled in American literature. Doctorow belonged to the same postwar generation as fellow authors John Updike and Philip Roth. Doctorow died at the age of 84, from lung cancer. On July 21 the prominent American writer E. ![]()
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