William Kennedy

Personal Info

Known For Writer

Gender Male

Birthday 1928-01-16 (96 years old)

Place of Birth Albany, New York, U.S.A.

William Kennedy

Biography

William Joseph Kennedy (born January 16, 1928) is an American writer and journalist who won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for his 1983 novel Ironweed. Kennedy's other works include The Ink Truck (1969), Legs (1975), Billy Phelan's Greatest Game (1978), Roscoe (2002) and Changó's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes (2011). Many of his novels have featured the interactions of members of the fictional Irish-American Phelan family in Albany, New York. Kennedy has also published a non-fiction book entitled O Albany!: Improbable City of Political Wizards, Fearless Ethnics, Spectacular Aristocrats, Splendid Nobodies, and Underrated Scoundrels (1983). From Wikipedia.

Known For

Writer

1987
Ironweed

as Screenplay

1987
Ironweed

as Novel

1984
The Cotton Club

as Screenplay

1984

Producer

2024
Melissa Etheridge: I'm Not Broken

as Executive Producer