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E.L Doctorow, Who Wrote Ragtime, Dies at 84 by Robert Simonson

E.L. Doctorow, the prolific novelist whose book "Ragtime" inspired the musical of the same name, died July 21 of lung cancer. He was 84.

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:03am on July 22, 2015

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