Author of billy bathgate5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Doctorow – Edgar to his friends – had that kind of expressive face a moment’s engagement with him and you knew you were dealing with a thoughtful, polite, supremely gentle human being. There is an expression I used to hear among the elders in my Italian family, mal’ a visage, mal’ di cuore, buon’ a visage, buon’ di cuore, which means basically that the heart shows on the face. It was my good fortune to meet Doctorow in the early 1990s and share a few brief conversations with him in the years that followed. Doctorow departed from us this week, succumbing to lung cancer complications at the age of 84. ‘A nice man and a great writer,’ she said.Į.L. Krementz photographed Doctorow many times over the years but this picture is her favorite. Doctorow photographed by jill Krementz swimming with Becky in Gardiner’s Bay on August 3, 1975. ![]()
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