William Kennedy

Pulitzer prize-winning Novelist William Kennedy has been called the Bard of Albany for his series of books on political intrigue in the New York capital in the 20th century. Kennedy started as a journalist covering Albany politics and learned how to transform the facts of journalism into writing fiction. He explains how to fix an election, how Albany pols hated his hard-hitting journalism, but loved his fictionalization of their lives in the novels ‘Ironweed’, ‘Legs’, ‘Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game’, and ‘Roscoe’. Kennedy use the house where gangster Legs Diamond was murdered as a writing studio for 40 years.