William Kennedy (author), the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ironweed
William Kennedy (politician), the early-nineteenth-century, United States congressman from North Carolina in the United States Democratic-Republican Party
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In evocative prose, with vivid characterizations and acutely observed dialog, Kennedy's novels mingle history with myth, politics with the personal, and lyricism with squalor.
Kennedy's other Albany cycle novels are The Ink Truck (1969), Legs (1975), Billy Phelan's Greatest Game (1978), Quinn's Book (1988), The Flaming Corsage (1996), and Roscoe (2001).
Kennedy has taught at the State Univ. of New York at Albany since 1973.