EL Doctorow, literary time traveller, dies at 84

July 22, 2015 11:03

E. L. Doctorow, a leading figure in contemporary American letters whose popular, critically admired and award-winning novels -- including Ragtime, Billy Bathgate and The March -- situated fictional characters in recognizable historical contexts, among identifiable historical figures and often within unconventional narrative forms, died on Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 84 and lived in Manhattan. The cause was complications from lung cancer, his son, Richard, said. Read more

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