The American novelist Edgar Lawrence Doctorow, best known as the Doctorow, and considered the “master” of historical fiction in the US He died today at age 84 after suffering complications related to lung cancer.
The author of such novels as “Ragtime,” which was adapted into a Broadway musical, and “World’s Fair”, which won the US National Book Award in 1986, he died in a hospital in New York, he told the Los Angeles Times writer son, Richard Doctorow.
The first book Doctorow, “Welcome to Hard Times”, set in the Wild West, was published in 1960, and he continued classics of American literature as “Big as Life” (1966) “The Book of Daniel” (1971) and “Ragtime” (1975).
The novelist was born in the New York district of the Bronx in 1931, and for decades portrayed in his works the greatness and pettiness of American society of his time, so he called his work “immense social documents “.
After hearing the news of his death, the US president, Barack Obama, posted a message on his Twitter account dedicated to the memory of Doctorow.
“EL Doctorow was one of the best American novelists. His books taught me a lot, and they will miss him,” Bush wrote.
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