Author E.L. Doctorow has died. He was 84 years old.
Doctorow (pictured, via) became well-known for writing several popular novels including Ragtime (1975), World’s Fair (1985), Billy Bathgate (1989), The March (2005), and Homer & Langley (2009). Throughout his literary career, he wrote twelve novels, three collections of short fiction pieces, and one stage drama.
Here’s more from The New York Times: “Subtly subversive in his fiction — less so in his left-wing political writing — he consistently upended expectations with a cocktail of fiction and fact, remixed in book after book; with clever and substantive manipulations of popular genres like the Western and the detective story; and with his myriad storytelling strategies. Deploying, in different books, the unreliable narrator, the stream-of-consciousness narrator, the omniscient narrator and multiple narrators, Mr. Doctorow was one of contemporary fiction’s most restless experimenters.” (via The Washington Post)