American · b. 1928
William Kennedy is an American novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for Ironweed, the central work of his acclaimed Albany Cycle.
William Kennedy, a former journalist, has devoted much of his fiction to his native Albany, New York, transforming the city’s history and Irish-American life into rich literary material.
His novel Ironweed (1983), following a haunted, alcoholic former ballplayer through Depression-era Albany, won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award and became a film. It is the centerpiece of his interconnected “Albany Cycle,” which also includes Legs and Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game.
Kennedy is celebrated for his lyrical, vividly peopled fiction and for making Albany an enduring literary landscape.
by William Kennedy
Albany, 1938. Francis Phelan is a bum, an alcoholic, a man who dropped his infant son on the kitchen floor and could not live with it. He was also a professional baseball player and is haunted, literally, by the people he has killed. Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize winner is the third of the Albany Cycle — a hallucinatory, lyrical, deeply American novel about guilt, grace, and the impossibility of going home.
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