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July 22, 2015

Celebrated Novelist E. L. Doctorow Dies at 84 
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The great novelist E. L. Doctorow has died at the age of 84. Known for
his novels "Ragtime," "Billy Bathgate" and "The March," about General
William Sherman's march into Atlanta, Doctorow was a leading voice in
contemporary literature. He died Tuesday in Manhattan after a battle
with lung cancer.

 

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