Billy Bathgate

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 story is told in the first person by Billy "Bathgate" Behan, a fifteen-year-old boy who first becomes the gofer and then surrogate son of mobster Dutch Schultz.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "All Past National Book Critics Circle Award Winners and Finalists". National Book Critics Circle. Archived from the original on October 6, 2019. Retrieved August 10, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Past Winners & Finalists". PEN/Faulkner Foundation. Archived from the original on December 21, 2013. Retrieved August 10, 2014.
  3. ↑ "The William Dean Howells Medal". www.artsandletters.org. American Academy of Arts and Letters. Archived from the original on March 14, 2015. Retrieved May 8, 2015.
  4. ↑ 1990 Pulitzer Prize Nominated Finalists (Runners Up) pulitzer.org Retrieved August 10, 2014.
  5. ↑ "National Book Awards - 1989". National Book Foundation. Archived from the original on October 3, 2018. Retrieved January 14, 2014.
  6. ↑ "BILLY BATHGATE by E.L. Doctorow (Harper & Row: $5.95)". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 8, 2012.


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