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William Kennedy


(William Joseph Kennedy)
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William Joseph Kennedy is an American writer and journalist born and raised in Albany, New York. Many of his novels feature the interaction of members of the fictional Irish-American Phelan family, and make use of incidents of Albany's history and the supernatural.
 

Awards: Pulitzer (1984), NBCC (1983)  see all
 
Series
Albany Cycle
   1. Legs (1975)
   2. Billy Phelan's Greatest Game (1978)
   3. Ironweed (1983)
   4. Quinn's Book (1988)
   5. Very Old Bones (1992)
   6. The Flaming Corsage (1996)
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Novels
   The Ink Truck (1969)
   Code Conquistador (1982)
   Roscoe (2002)
   Chango's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes (2011)
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Non fiction show
 
Awards
1984 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction : Ironweed
1983 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction : Ironweed

Award nominations
2003 PEN/Faulkner Award (nominee) : Roscoe
1984 PEN/Faulkner Award (nominee) : Ironweed



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