![]() ![]() ![]() Doctorow at the Big Ben Bookshop in Prague in the Czech Republic in June 2007. "Billy Bathgate," winner of the National Book Critics Circle award for fiction in 1990, illuminated the gangster world of the 1920s and '30s, following the adventures of a 15-year-old protegé of Dutch Schultz. Washington and Henry Ford among its cast of characters. entry into World War I in 1917, included Harry Houdini, Booker T. "Ragtime" (1975), which tracks one New York family through from 1900 until the U.S. nuclear secrets to the former Soviet Union. "The Book of Daniel," the novel that launched his career in 1971, broadly fictionalized the trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed for turning over U.S. His books taught me much, and he will be missed.- President Obama July 22, 2015 Doctorow was one of America's greatest novelists. ![]()
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