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A Conversation with Novelist E.L. Doctorow
and Writer Tony Kushner

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  • Date: 01.19.06

For its inaugural event, the Forum invited literary heavyweights E.L. Doctorow and Tony Kushner to speak about the famous trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, who were convicted of being spies for the Soviet Union. The two writers discussed why the fate of the Rosenbergs continues to inspire the artistic imagination.

Doctorow is generally considered to be among the most important novelists of the second half of the 20th century, having won the National Book Award, two National Book Critics Circle Awards, and the PEN/Faulkner Award, among others. Tony Kushner wrote the Broadway blockbuster Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize, two Tony Awards, and two Drama Desk Awards.

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