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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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A few professional alienists understood his importance, but to most of the public he appeared as some kind of German sexologist, an exponent of free love who used big words to talk about dirty things. At least a decade would have to pass before Freud would have his revenge and see his ideas begin to destroy sex in America forever.
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Birth: | 6th January, 1931 |
Death: | 21st July, 2015 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Novelist, Professor |
Edgar Lawrence "E. L." Doctorow was born in The Bronx, New York. He was an American novelist, and professor, best known internationally for his works of historical fiction. He wrote twelve novels, three volumes of short fiction and a stage drama. They included the award-winning novels Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, and The March. His most notable adaptations were for the film, Ragtime and the Broadway musical of the same name, which won four Tony Awards. He was the Loretta and Lewis Glucksman Professor of English and American Letters at New York University. President Barack Obama called him "one of America's greatest novelists".
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