Billy Bathgate
First edition | |
| Author | E. L. Doctorow |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Crime |
| Publisher | Random House |
Publication date | 1989 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 323 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, the 1990 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the 1990 William Dean Howells Medal, and was the runner-up for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize and the 1989 National Book Award. The book was dedicated to Jason Epstein.
A film based on the novel was released in 1991 to very mixed reviews.