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Author and Bronx native E.L. Doctorow discusses his writing and early inspiration as a writer at the spring Poetry Center with journalist and author Roger Rosenblatt.

They spoke about Doctorows time as a student at Bronx High School of Science, being named after Edgar Allen Poe, and his new novel, Homer & Langley. The novel, he explained, is loosely based on the Collyer brothers of Harlem, strange, reclusive eccentrics who lived in a house on the upper Fifth Ave.  Doctorow, who was named after Edgar Allan Poe, died on July 21, 2015 in New York City.

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The great E.L. Doctorow discusses his writing and the process of discovery.  Getting into the mind and imaginations of his characters and his stories.  In this interview with Charlie Rose, he talks about how some writers rely too much on research.  The writer, he says, has to approach the words from the perspective of both the writer and the reader.  Doctorow died in Manhattan at the age of 84 on July 21, 2015.  He was named after Edgar Allan Poe.

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