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Billy Bathgate
Billy Bathgate is a 1989 novel by author E. L. Doctorow, telling the story of a young man who ingratiates himself with famous mobster Dutch Schultz. Though the Billy Bathgate character is fiction, Schultz and several others are based on real-life people. The novel was a critical and popular success. It 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 somewhat mixed reviews.
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