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Ironweed is a 1983 novel by American author William Kennedy. Ironweed received the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and is the third book in Kennedy's Albany Cycle. It is included in the Western Canon of the critic Harold Bloom. The novel was adapted into a 1987 film of the same name.
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May 18, 2018 · Author William Kennedy (born 1928) rose from literary obscurity to national renown following the publication of his 1983 novel Ironweed. Taken together, his gritty, downbeat novels form an intricate cycles panning the history of his native Albany, New York.
Feb 24, 2012 · Kennedy, who is still heavily involved, considers it among his greatest achievements. His best writing is still set in Albany, although the new novel opens dramatically in Cuba just prior to the...
Apr 17, 2018 · Saul Bellow was a big figure for William Kennedy. Prior to helping him find a publisher for Ironweed in 1983 (with some effective Bellow bluster), he also briefly taught Kennedy in Puerto Rico in ...
Bill Kennedy's long friendship with E. L. Doctorow (who visited 2/27) is the subject of an article by Paul Grondahl in the Times Union: Always an ink-stained wretch William Kennedy in his life as a journalist "A book cannot save a city, but it can prove that a city is worth saving." — Stefan Beck
William Joseph Kennedy is an American writer and journalist born and raised in Albany, New York. Many of his novels feature the interaction of members of the fictional Irish-American Phelan family, and make use of incidents of Albany's history and the supernatural.
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