← William KennedyBilly Phelan's Greatest Gameby William KennedySmall-time gambler and hustler navigates corruption in Depression-era AlbanyFind on Amazon↗About the authorWilliam KennedyWilliam 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.More by William KennedyIronweedHomeless vagrant's spiritual journey through Albany ghosts and redemption→LegsIrish gangster confronts violence and morality during Prohibition→The Ink Truck→Quinn's BookIrish laborer's life unfolds through Civil War and Reconstruction→