This author of The Waterworks and Billy Bathgate also wrote a work in which the pianist Coalhouse Walker is murdered and the wife of a fireworks manufacturer adopts a black child found half- buried in her garden.
In one work by this author, one character believes his wife's interest in feminist literature to be God's punishment for fornication with Eskimos, and another sees Dr. Sartorius experimentally prolong the lives of tycoons such as Augustus Pemberton. In another, the title character escorts Drew Preston after joining the gang of Dutch Schultz. This author of The Waterworks and Billy Bathgate also wrote a work in which the pianist Coalhouse Walker is murdered and the wife of a fireworks manufacturer adopts a black child found half- buried in her garden. For 10 points, name this American novelist of Ragtime.
In one work by this author, one character believes his wife's interest in feminist literature to be God's punishment for fornication with Eskimos, and another sees Dr. Sartorius experimentally prolong the lives of tycoons such as Augustus Pemberton.
E.L. {Doctorow}