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World's Fair is a 1985 novel by American author E.L. Doctorow. It is a semi-autobiographical story of a boy named Edgar who lives in the Bronx during the late 1930s, and culminates with the 1939 World's Fair. [1] [2] [3] It won the National Book Award in 1986.
Edgar Lawrence Doctorow (January 6, 1931 – July 21, 2015) was an American novelist, editor, and professor, best known for his works of historical fiction. He wrote twelve novels, three volumes of short fiction and a stage drama, including the award-winning novels Ragtime (1975), Billy Bathgate (1989), and The March (2005).
Billy Bathgate is the eighth in a series of what critic James Wood has called "intricate historical brocades". Earlier novels by Doctorow that were also set in the 1930s include Loon Lake and World's Fair; the latter also shares poetical evocations of the Bronx in which the author himself grew up.
Billy Behan is a poor Irish American teenager from the Bronx in the 1935. One day, he catches the attention of wealthy Jewish mobster Dutch Schultz.Changing his last name to Bathgate after a local street, Billy goes to work for Schultz's organization, serving mostly as a gofer for Schultz.
Ragtime is a novel by E. L. Doctorow, first published in 1975. [1] The sweeping historical fiction occurs in the area of New York City between 1902 and 1915. Ragtime was ranked number 86 among Modern Library's 100 Best Novels in 1998. Time magazine included Ragtime in its list of 100 Best English-Language Novels from 1923 to 2005. [2]
World’s Fair visitors walk around the Unisphere as the Swiss Sky Ride cars are in the background 112 off the ground on April 25, 1964, in Queens, N.Y. Credit - John Curran—Newsday via Getty Images
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