William Kennedy
William Kennedy created the Albany Cycle, a series of interconnected novels about Irish-American life in upstate New York spanning a century of urban history. Ironweed won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Works
- IronweedHomeless vagrant's spiritual journey through Albany ghosts and redemption
- Billy Phelan's Greatest GameSmall-time gambler and hustler navigates corruption in Depression-era Albany
- LegsIrish gangster confronts violence and morality during Prohibition
- The Ink Truck
- Quinn's BookIrish laborer's life unfolds through Civil War and Reconstruction