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2. Any Greatest Modern Fiction list which doesn't include "Ragtime"......

Wed Jul 22, 2015, 09:36 AM

Jul 2015

...is a list which should be ignored. RIP to one of the best novelists this country ever produced.

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'Ragtime' author E.L. Doctorow dies in New York at 84 [View all] Omaha Steve Jul 2015 OP

He was one of my favorite writers. MarianJack Jul 2015 #1

Astoundingly gifted writer. Aristus Jul 2015 #3

I've always gotten him confused with D.H. Lawrence Charles de Gaudless Jul 2015 #4