Biography
William Joseph Kennedy (born January 16, 1928) is an American writer and journalist who won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for his 1983 novel Ironweed. Kennedy's other works include The Ink Truck (1969), Legs (1975), Billy Phelan's Greatest Game (1978), Roscoe (2002) and Changó's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes (2011). Many of his novels have featured the interactions of members of the fictional Irish-American Phelan family in Albany, New York.
Kennedy has also published a non-fiction book entitled O Albany!: Improbable City of Political Wizards, Fearless Ethnics, Spectacular Aristocrats, Splendid Nobodies, and Underrated Scoundrels (1983).
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Filmography
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Melissa Etheridge: I'm Not Broken (2024)
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Ironweed (1987)
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The Cotton Club (1984)
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Known ForWriting
GenderMale
Birthday1928-01-16 (97 years old)
Birth NameWilliam Joseph Kennedy
Birth PlaceAlbany, United States
CitizenshipsUnited States
ResidencesAlbany, United States of America
AwardsCommandeur des Arts et des Lettres, Helmerich Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, American Book Awards, MacArthur Fellows Program
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