AdvertisementNovelist E.L. Doctorow, Author Of 'Billy Bathgate,' 'Ragtime,' Dies At 84July 21, 2015Christopher Dean HopkinsfacebookEmailE.L. Doctorow, center, stands with other National Book Critics Circle award winners in March 2006 at a reception following the awards ceremony in New York. Doctorow's "The March" won the prize for fiction that year. (AP)