William Kennedy

William Joseph Kennedy (born January 16, 1928) is an American writer and journalist. He was born and raised in Albany, New York. He studied in Siena College. He was inspired by Gore Vidal, William Shakespeare, and by Edgar Allan Poe.
Kennedy's works include "The Ink Truck" (1969), "Legs" (1975), "Billy Phelan's Greatest Game" (1978), "Ironweed" (1983, winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; movie, 1987), and "Roscoe" (2002). 
In 2011, he published "Changó's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes", which one reviewer called a book "written with such brio and encompassing humanity that it may well deserve to be called the best of the bunch".
In 1953, Kennedy married Ana Segarra. They have three children. He lives in Averill Park, New York.