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
- ↑ All Past National Book Critics Circle Award Winners and Finalists. National Book Critics Circle. Retrieved August 10, 2014.
- ↑ Past Winners & Finalists. PEN/Faulkner Foundation. Retrieved August 10, 2014.
- ↑ The William Dean Howells Medal. www.artsandletters.orgAmerican Academy of Arts and Letters. Retrieved May 8, 2015.
- ↑ 1990 Pulitzer Prize Nominated Finalists (Runners Up) pulitzer.org Retrieved August 10, 2014.
- ↑ National Book Awards - 1989. National Book Foundation. Retrieved January 14, 2014.
- ↑ BILLY BATHGATE by E.L. Doctorow (Harper & Row: $5.95). Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/1990-03-25/books/bk-338_1_billy-bathgate. Retrieved June 8, 2012.
