{"id":5414,"date":"2015-07-23T19:39:11","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T18:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=5414"},"modified":"2015-07-23T19:39:11","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T18:39:11","slug":"el-doctorow-dies-at-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/el-doctorow-dies-at-84\/","title":{"rendered":"EL Doctorow dies at 84"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Doctorow\"<\/a>The assignment was to interview a \u201ccolorful person,\u201d and the teenage E.L. Doctorow \u2014 back then, he was simply Edgar \u2014 had just the man.
\nHis name was Karl, and he was a dear old German-Jewish refugee who worked as a stage doorman at Carnegie Hall. Young Edgar\u2019s report on the elderly man was replete with details both dramatic and intimate: How Karl was a great lover of music and was a favorite among the artists who frequented the famous concert hall. How every evening he would arrive at work with a brown bag lunch and a thermos full of tea, which he drank in the Old World style, sticking a cube of sugar in his teeth and drinking through the melting crystals.
\nEdgar\u2019s high school journalism teacher loved the story and wanted to run it in the school newspaper. Nervously, he responded that wasn\u2019t a good idea.
\n\u201cI said, \u2018Well, Karl is very shy.\u2019 And she said, \u2018Shy? Well, he talked to you, didn\u2019t he?\u2019\u201d he recalled in a National Archives interview more than six decades later.
\n\u201cI said, \u2018Not exactly. There is no Karl. I made him up,\u2019\u201d the adult Doctorow laughed.
\nThe award-winning author of a dozen novels, three short story collections and countless commentaries on culture and politics died in New York on Tuesday at age 84. The cause was complications from lung cancer, his son told The New York Times.
\nHis father had named him for Edgar Allen Poe.<\/p>\n

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