Lebensdaten: * 1931 New York, USA – † 2015 ebenda
Werke:
- Willkommen in Hard Times (Welcome to Hard Times) – 1960
- Das Buch Daniel (The Book of Daniel) – 1971
- Ragtime (Ragtime) – 1975
- Sterntaucher (Loon Lake) – 1980
- Weltausstellung (World’s Fair) – 1985
- Billy Bathgate (Billy Bathgate) – 1989
- Das Wasserwerk (The Waterworks) – 1994
- City of God (City of God) – 2000
- Sweet Land Stories (Sweet Land Stories) – 2004
- Der Marsch (The March) – 2005
- Homer & Langley (Homer & Langley) – 2009
- In Andrews Kopf (Andrew’s Brain) – 2014
Kurzgeschichtensammlungen:
- Das Leben der Dichter (Lives of the Poets) – 1984
- Alle Zeit der Welt (All the Time in the World, New and Selected Stories) – 2012