The historical novel seems to me a misnomer, and many of my books take place in different places, in the Dakotas, or down south in Georgia or the Carolinas, so it’s just as valid to call me a geographical novelist as an historical novelist. I think all novels are about the past, the near past, the far past, some of them have a wider focus and include more of society and recognizable events and people. Both became movies.ĭoctorow didn’t care for being labeled a “historical novelist,” he told NPR’s Scott Simon in 2014: His best known works were Ragtime, about a suburban New York family in the first two decades of the century, and Billy Bathgate, about a protege to New York mobster Dutch Schultz. His son told The New York Times that Doctorow’s death was from complications of lung cancer. Doctorow, best known for his historical fiction books set in the early 20th-century United States, died Tuesday at the age of 84, his agent confirmed late Tuesday.
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