![]() ![]() ![]() In 1995, Doctorow was one of five writers in the magazine who reflected on “Huckleberry Finn,” a book in which, in Doctorow’s words, “Civilization is a vicious confidence game played on a field of provincial ignorance.” Three years later, Doctorow wrote a Comment for the magazine about Kenneth Starr’s investigation of President Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky, an inquiry that brought to mind, for Doctorow, both Joseph McCarthy and the Salem witch trials. “When you write about the past,” he said, “you are always reflecting your own age.” He had just written “The Waterworks,” a novel set in New York City, in 1871. “New York is home for my imagination-which is convenient, since I live here,” Doctorow said, in 1994, in a Talk of the Town story. He also, during the last twenty years, published many pieces in The New Yorker. Widely celebrated for his often formally adventurous historical novels-“The Book of Daniel,” “Ragtime,” “Billy Bathgate,” and “The March,” among others-he received, over the course of his career, nearly every major award available to an American writer of fiction, some of them more than once. ![]()
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