William Kennedy is an American writer whose novels, many of which feature the interaction of members of the fictional Phelan family, are based in local history and the supernatural. His works include The Ink Truck (1969), Legs (1975), Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game (1978), and Ironweed (1983, Pulitzer Prize; film, 1987).
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