(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.

Author of these:

• Welcome To Hard Times
• Big as Life
• The Book of Daniel
• Ragtime
• Loon Lake
• Drinks Before Dinner
• Lives of the Poets: Six Stories and a Novella
• World's Fair
• Billy Bathgate
• The Waterworks
• City of God