He was a a bestselling novelist who wrote serious fiction. He radiated curiosity and intelligence. notice Lawson pays tribute to an American originalThe American writer EL Doctorow,who died on Tuesday in novel York at the age of 84, represented a series of paradoxes. He was a committed literary modernist who nearly never depicted his own times. Despite being a longtime academic whose photograph would perfectly have illustrated a dictionary entry for “professor”, or his sure populist touch resulted in his novels fitting bestsellers and being adapted into Hollywood movies and a Broadway musical. Yet,although these works brought him unusually broad audiences for a serious novelist, Doctorow never quite achieved the fame of his contemporaries such as Philip Roth and John Updike.
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