William Kennedy

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in Albany, New York, The United States

January 16, 1928

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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. Kennedy's works include The Ink Truck (1969), Legs (1975), Billy Phelan's Greatest Game (1978), Ironweed (1983, winner of 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; film, 1987), and Roscoe (2002).
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Average rating: 3.82 · 10,340 ratings · 573 reviews · 35 distinct works · Similar authors

	Ironweed 3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 7,325 ratings — published 1983 — 18 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Legs 3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 762 ratings — published 1975 — 12 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Billy Phelan's Greatest Game 3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 568 ratings — published 1978 — 7 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Very Old Bones 3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 252 ratings — published 1992 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Roscoe 3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 233 ratings — published 2002 — 7 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Changó's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes 3.25 of 5 stars 3.25 avg rating — 280 ratings — published 2011 — 15 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Quinn's Book 3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 212 ratings — published 1988 — 11 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Flaming Corsage 3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 156 ratings — published 1996 — 6 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	O Albany! 3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 1983 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Albany Trio: Legs, Billy Phelan's Greatest Game, Ironweed 4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 1988 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Albany Cycle (7 books)
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“Love, is always insufficient, always a lie. Love, you are the clean shit of my soul. Stupid love, silly love. ”
― William Kennedy, Ironweed

tags: love

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“. . . and what if I did drink too much? Whose business is that? Who knows how much I didn't drink?”
― William Kennedy, Ironweed

5 people liked it

“Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a mythic creature made of words and wit and wild deeds and boundless memory.”
― William Kennedy, Roscoe

tags: 1920s, jazz-age-stories, prohibition

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