The book was eventually adapted into a film and a Tony Award-winning musical. Henry Ford gives an unscrupulous JP Morgan a talking-to, while the "younger brother" in the novel's central family (the members of which are never named) is in love with real-life socialite Evelyn Nesbit. Harry Houdini makes an appearance, as do Sigmund Freud and the anarchist Emma Goldman.
I made him up.'"ĭoctorow became famous with Ragtime (1975), which tracks the intersecting lives of New Yorkers famous and fictional through the early years of the 20th century. "I said, 'Well, Karl is very shy.' And she said, 'Shy? Well, he talked to you, didn't he?'" he recalled more than six decades later. Doctorow replied that that wasn't a good idea, he recalled. His high school journalism teacher loved the story and wanted to run it in the school paper.
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How every evening he would arrive at work with a lunch in a brown bag and a thermos full of tea, which he drank in the Old World style, putting a cube of sugar in his teeth and drinking through the melting crystals. Young Edgar's report on the elderly man was replete with dramatic and intimate details: how Karl was a great lover of music and a favourite among the artists who frequented the concert hall. His name was Karl, a German-Jewish refugee who worked as a stage doorman at Carnegie Hall. The assignment was to interview a "colourful person" and the teenage Edgar Doctorow had just the man.
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