Billy Bathgate

This article is about the book. For the film, see Billy Bathgate (film).
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