(Edgar Laurence)
American writer (
1931 - ) who has enjoyed considerable commercial and critical success. "As intellectual as
Saul Bellow, only with more plot...or like
Bernard Malamud but not quite as
Jewish" --Me. Best known for Ragtime, a novel which was later made a musical and a movie...as well as Billy Bathgate, a novel which became a movie.
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