His experiments in unifying popular literary genres and serious thematic ideas produced the western Welcome to Hard Times and the sci-fi novel Big as Life.
His experiments in unifying popular literary genres and serious thematic ideas produced the western Welcome to Hard Times and the sci-fi novel Big as Life. He was inspired by the executions of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to write The Book of Daniel, and chose the New York City of the Gilded Age for the setting of his 1994 historical novel The Waterworks. He won the 1986 National Book Award for his novel World's Fair and a movie was made out of his Billy Bathgate. FTP, identify this American novelist, the author of Ragtime.
His experiments in unifying popular literary genres and serious thematic ideas produced the western Welcome to Hard Times and the sci-fi novel Big as Life.
Edgar Lawrence {Doctorow}