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From The Archive: Doctorow Discusses Craft In 2009

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Joe Donahue
Published July 22, 2015 at 10:35 AM EDT

One of the nation’s leading authors has died. E.L. Doctorow is being remembered as an American original whose historical fiction, criticism and plays leave a legacy of inventive writing, characters and settings — even when the characters were familiar figures from the past. The 84-year-old native New Yorker who died Tuesday is best known for Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, and The March, and also set one novel in Warren County, Loon Lake. In 2009, Doctorow spoke about his craft with WAMC’s Joe Donahue on The Book Show.
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