Award-winning US author of historical novels including Ragtime and Billy Bathgate died of complications from lung cancer,his son confirmsEL Doctorow in quotes: 15 of his best thoughts on writingI don’t hold a style but the books carry out’ – EL Doctorow interview
World’s Fair by EL Doctorow: a literary classicEL Doctorow, the award-winning novelist and academic whom Barack Obama once named as his favourite author after Shakespeare, and has died in New York at the age of 84.
The author of accepted American historical novels including Ragtime,Billy Bathgate and World’s Fair died on Tuesday of complications from lung cancer, his son Richard told the New York Times.
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Source: theguardian.com