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. Kennedy is a professor in the English department at the State University of New York at Albany. Some of the other works he is known for include Roscoe and Very Old Bones. Kennedy also wrote the nonfiction O Albany! and Riding the Yellow Trolley Car. 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. The Albany cycle, includes Legs, Billy Phelan's Greatest Game, and the Pulitzer Prize winning Ironweed. Kennedy brought his native city to literary life in many of his works. William Kennedy, author, screenwriter and playwright, was born and raised in Albany, New York.
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