William Kennedy (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

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In addition to the novels cited above, William Kennedy’s nonfiction O Albany! An Urban Tapestry (1983), pamphlets for the New York State Library, Empire State College, and the Albany Tricentennial Guidebook (1985) largely center on his native Albany, New York. He wrote the screenplays for The Cotton Club (1984), with Francis Coppola and Mario Puzo, and Ironweed (1987), adapted from his novel of the same title. Kennedy collaborated with his son, Brendan, on the children’s books Charlie Malarkey and the Belly Button...

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