Biography william joseph kennedy
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When William Joseph Kennedy was born on 11 June 1870, in Texas, United States, his father, Thomas Kennedy, was 28 and his mother, Martha Tucker Sadler, was 23. He married Icephenia Parker on 12 December 1889, in Anderson, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Justice Precinct 2, Anderson, Texas, United States for about 40 years. He died on 26 November 1924, in Elkhart, Anderson, Texas, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in Pilgrim Cemetery, Elkhart, Anderson, Texas, United States.
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William Kennedy (author)
American writer and reporter (born 1928)
For other people named William Kennedy, see William Kennedy (disambiguation).
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.[1][2][3]
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).
Early life, family, and education
[edit]William Joseph Kennedy was born January 16, 1928, in Albany, New York[4] to William and Mary Kenne
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William J. Kennedy
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William Kennedy, author, screenwriter and playwright, was born and raised in Albany, New York. Kennedy brought his native city to literary life in many of his works. The Albany cycle, includes Legs, Billy Phelan's Greatest Game, and the Pulitzer Prize winning Ironweed. The versatile Kennedy wrote the screenplay for Ironweed, the play Grand View, and cowrote the screenplay for the The Cotton Club with Francis Ford Coppola. Kennedy also wrote the nonfiction O Albany! and Riding the Yellow Trolley Car. Some of the other works he is known for include Roscoe and Very Old Bones.
Kennedy is a professor in the English department at the State University of New York at Albany. He is the founding director of the New York State Writers Institute and, in 1993, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has received numerous literary awards, including th