Author William Kennedy (born 1928)rose from literary obscurity to national renown following the publication of his 1983 novel Ironweed. Taken together, his gritty, downbeat novels form an intricate cy...
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January 16, 1928. William Kennedy was born in Albany, New York. "I grew up in a very isolated pocket of Albany called the North End.... My father was involved in politics and wound up as deputy sherif...
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In 1984 William Kennedy told Terrence Petty that between the publication of The Ink Truck (1969), Legs (1975), and Billy Phelan's Greatest Game (1978) he and his family "lived on credit and promises t...
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William Kennedy
William Kennedy
William Kennedy
