The book is set in New York in 1935, where Billy, a teenager, works for the gangster Dutch Schultz. Doctorow in 1989 when "Billy Bathgate" was published. And "Ragtime," the book that made him famous, also became a Broadway musical that won four Tony Awards. Many of Doctorow's novels were adapted to the screen. "The March," his book about Sherman's campaign in the Civil War, won the William PEN/Faulkner Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Dutch Schultz is one of the main characters in Doctorow's novel "Billy Bathgate." His novel "World's Fair" was set during the Depression and the rise of Hitler. In his best-known book, "Ragtime," Freud, Emma Goldman, Henry Ford and Harry Houdini all make appearances. His novels were known for combining fictional characters with real people in a historical context. Doctorow died Tuesday in Manhattan at the age of 84.
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