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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.
 
 
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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Awards
PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction Best Book nominee (1984) : Ironweed
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Best Book winner (1984) : Ironweed
PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction Best Book nominee (2003) : Roscoe


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