Novelist—Ragtime
Other Novels: Andrew’s Brain, Homer & Langley, The March, City of God, The Waterworks, Billy Bathgate, World’s Fair, Loon Lake, The Book of Daniel, Big as Life, Welcome to Hard Times
Short Fiction: Lives of the Poets: Six Stories and a Novella, Sweet Land Stories, All the Time in the World: New and Selected Stories, Cuentos Completos
Play: Drinks before Dinner
Television: Billy Bathgate
Film: Ragtime, Daniel, Welcome to Hard Times
Awards: Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, National Book Critics Circle Awards, National Humanities Medal, PEN/Faulkner Awards, National Book Award
Education: Kenyon College
Teaching Credits: Sarah Laurence College, Yale School of Drama, University of Utah, University of California–Irvine, Princeton University, New York University