A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework.
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E. L. Doctorow
These are some quotes by American author E. L. Doctorow Author, who lived between January 6, 1931 and July 21, 2015.
