“His books taught me much, and he will be missed,” Obama said on Twitter.īorn in 1931 and raised in the Bronx, N.Y., Doctorow was a broadly American author, writing novels that operated as what he called “immense social documents,” taking on the messy ambiguities of the national mythosphere. Shortly after news of Doctorow’s death became public, President Obama called the author “one of America’s greatest novelists.”
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