Doctorow Wins Pen/Faulkner Award

E.L. Doctorow, author of Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, and a number of other books, has won the prestigious Pen/Faulkner Award for The March, a novel based on General William Tecumseh Sherman's famous campaign through Georgia and South Carolina during the Civil War.  In an interview in Time Magazine he answers questions about Sherman and the book.  When asked, "Why the Civil War?" he says, "You can't think seriously about this country without pondering the Civil War. The sin it expunged, the sin it became. It's our DNA."  You can read the entire interview here.