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William Kennedy

Writer, ProducerBorn January 16, 1928 (98 years)
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).

From Wikipedia.

Known For

  • Ironweed
  • The Cotton Club
  • Melissa Etheridge: I'm Not Broken

Filmography

1987
Ironweed · as Novel
1984
The Cotton Club · as Screenplay

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