Billy Bathgate

Billy Bathgate
First edition
AuthorE. L. Doctorow
LanguageEnglish
GenreCrime
PublisherRandom House
Publication date
1989
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages323 pp

Billy Bathgate is a 1989 novel by author E. L. Doctorow that won the 1989 National Book Critics Circle award for fiction for 1990,[1] the 1990 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction,[2] the 1990 William Dean Howells Medal,[3] and was the runner-up for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize[4] and the 1989 National Book Award.[5] The book was dedicated to Jason Epstein.[6]

A film based on the novel was released in 1991 to very mixed reviews.[7]

  1. ^ "All Past National Book Critics Circle Award Winners and Finalists". National Book Critics Circle. Archived from the original on 18 October 2015. Retrieved 10 August 2014.
  2. ^ "Past Winners & Finalists". PEN/Faulkner Foundation. Archived from the original on 21 December 2013. Retrieved 10 August 2014.
  3. ^ "The William Dean Howells Medal". www.artsandletters.org. American Academy of Arts and Letters. Archived from the original on 2015-03-14. Retrieved 2015-05-08.
  4. ^ 1990 Pulitzer Prize Nominated Finalists (Runners Up) pulitzer.org Retrieved August 10, 2014.
  5. ^ "National Book Awards – 1989". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 14 January 2014.
  6. ^ "Jason Epstein: Publishing Icon, Perennial Student | Washington Independent Review of Books".
  7. ^ Billy Bathgate, Roger Ebert, 1 November 1991

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