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American writer and journalist (born 1928)

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).

William Joseph Kennedy was born January 16, 1928, in Albany, New York to William and Mary Kennedy. He is an only child. Kennedy's parents were working class Irish Americans. Kennedy was raised Catholic and grew up in the North Albany neighborhood.

Kennedy began pursuing a career in journalism after college by joining the Post Star in Glens Falls as a sports reporter. He was drafted in 1950 and served in the US Army, where he worked for an Army newspaper in Europe. and it won Kennedy a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Critics Circle Award. Kennedy also published a nonfiction book entitled O Albany! : Improbable City of Political Wizards, Fearless Ethnics, Spectacular Aristocrats, Splendid Nobodies, and Underrated Scoundrels (1983).

Kennedy received the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel Ironweed. He also won the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Kennedy met Dana Daisy Sosa (born Ana Segarra), a Broadway dancer, in her native Puerto Rico. They married in 1957 and had three children. In 1963, they moved from Puerto Rico to Averill Park, New York, where she would die on September 29, 2023.

The Ink Truck. New York: Viking Press, 1969.

Legs. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1975. Billy Phelan's Greatest Game. New York: Viking Press, 1978. Ironweed. New York: Viking Press, 1983. Quinn's Book. New York: Viking Press, 1988. Very Old Bones. New York: Viking Press, 1992. The Flaming Corsage. New York: Viking Press, 1996. Roscoe. New York: Viking Press, 2002. Changó's Beads and Two Tone Shoes. New York: Viking Adult, 2012.

O Albany! : Improbable City of Political Wizards, Fearless Ethnics, Spectacular Aristocrats, Splendid Nobodies, and Underrated Scoundrels. New York: Viking Press, 1983. The Making of Ironweed. New York: Viking Penguin, 1988. Riding the Yellow Trolley Car. New York: Viking Press, 1993.

The Cotton Club. Co authored with Francis Ford Coppola. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. Ironweed. Tri Star, 1987.

Grand View. Premiered at Capital Repertory Theatre, Albany, New York, 1996. In the System. HumaniTech* Short Play Project Premiere, University at Albany, March 2003. The Light of the World. Premiere reading at Capital Repertory Theatre in Albany, starring Aidan Quinn. November 2014.

Charlie Malarkey and the Belly Button Machine (co authored with Brendan Kennedy). New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986. Charlie Malarkey and the Singing Moose (co authored with Brendan Kennedy). New York: Viking Children's Books, 1994.

Flanagan, Thomas. O Albany!. New York Review of Books. April 25, 2002
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