![]() ![]() "I don't know what I set out to do," Doctorow said in 2006 after the publication of "The March," his acclaimed Civil War novel. "His books taught me much, and he will be missed," Obama wrote on his account.īesides Doctorow's 10 novels, he published two books of short stories, a play called "Drinks Before Dinner" and numerous essays and articles. President Barack Obama praised Doctorow on Twitter as "one of America's greatest novelists." ![]() ![]() He won the National Book Award for fiction in 1986 for "World's Fair" and the National Book Critics Circle award in 1989 for "Billy Bathgate" and in 2005 for "The March." He died Tuesday at a New York hospital from complications of lung cancer, his son, Richard Doctorow, confirmed.Ĭonsidered one of the major authors of the 20th century, Doctorow enjoyed critical and popular success over his 50-year career. Doctorow, who wryly reimagined the American experience in such novels as "Ragtime" and "The March" and applied its lessons to the past and the future in fiction and nonfiction, has died. ![]()
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