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William Kennedy


Born
in Albany, New York, The United States
January 16, 1928

Genre
Literature & Fiction


Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.

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: 3.85 · 24,618 ratings · 1,595 reviews · 31 distinct works • Similar authors
Ironweed
3.87 avg rating — 17,646 ratings — published 1983
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Legs
3.81 avg rating — 2,005 ratings — published 1975 — 41 editions
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Billy Phelan's Greatest Game
3.95 avg rating — 1,380 ratings — published 1978 — 33 editions
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Very Old Bones (Albany Cycl...
3.80 avg rating — 560 ratings — published 1992 — 24 editions
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Quinn's Book
3.70 avg rating — 564 ratings — published 1988 — 10 editions
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Roscoe
3.81 avg rating — 512 ratings — published 2002 — 14 editions
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Changó's Beads and Two-Tone...
3.27 avg rating — 556 ratings — published 2011 — 25 editions
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The Flaming Corsage (The Al...
3.56 avg rating — 332 ratings — published 1996 — 21 editions
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O Albany!: Improbable City ...
3.83 avg rating — 237 ratings — published 1983 — 12 editions
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An Albany Trio: Legs, Billy...
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Series by William Kennedy

Legs Billy Phelan's Greatest Game Ironweed Quinn's Book Very Old Bones The Flaming Corsage Roscoe
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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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“Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.”
― William Kennedy, Roscoe
tags: 1920s, bon-mots, city, history, jazz-age-stories, machine-politics, politics, satire, sin, urban-life, vice
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“...the only brotherhood they belonged to was the one that asked that enduring question: How do I get through the next twenty minutes? They feared drys, cops, jailers, bosses, moralists, crazies, truth-tellers, and one another. they loved storytellers, liars, whores, fighters, singers, collie dogs that wagged their tails, and generous bandits. Rudy, thought Francis: he's just a bum, but who ain't?”
― William Kennedy, Ironweed
tags: dealing-with-it
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