By the 1950s The Novel had become a nationwide tournament. There was a magical assumption that the end of World War II in 1945 was the dawn of a new golden age of the American Novel, like the Hemingway-Dos Passos-Fitzgerald era after World War I.
WorksThe Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test; The Right Stuff; A Man In Full; Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing The Flak Catchers; The Bonfire Of The Vanities; Back To Blood
AwardsNational Humanities Medal; National Book Award