of Distinction in May 2012 by the Chancellor of the State University of New York, and so joined the ranks of the SUNY Distinguished Academy as a board-appointed Distinguished Professor. Kennedy lectured in creative writing and journalism from 1974 to 1982 at the University at Albany, becoming a full professor in 1983. He taught writing as a visiting professor at Cornell University during the 1982–1983 academic year. Awards Kennedy received the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel Ironweed. He also won the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2001, he received the Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award from the Tulsa Library Trust. William Kennedy received the Fitzgerald Award for Achievement in American Literature award in 2007, which is given annually in Rockville, Maryland where F. Scott Fitzgerald, his wife, and his daughter are buried. Personal life In Puerto Rico, Kennedy met and married Daisy (Dana) Sosa. They have three children. Bibliography Fiction The Ink Truck. New York: Viking Press, 1969. The Albany Cycle Legs. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1975. Billy Phelan's Greatest Game. New York: Viking Press, 1978. Ironweed. New York: Viking Press, 1983. Quinn's Book. New York: Viking Press, 1988. Very Old Bones. New York: Viking Press, 1992. The Flaming Corsage. New York: Viking Press, 1996. Roscoe. New York: Viking Press, 2002. Changó's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes. New York: Viking Adult, 2012. Nonfiction O Albany!: Improbable City of Political Wizards, Fearless Ethnics, Spectacular Aristocrats, Splendid Nobodies, and Underrated Scoundrels. New York: Viking Press, 1983. The Making of Ironweed. New York: Viking Penguin, 1988. Riding the Yellow Trolley Car. New York: Viking Press, 1993. Screenplays The Cotton Club. Co-authored with Francis Ford Coppola. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. Ironweed. Tri-Star, 1987. Plays Grand View. Premiered at Capital Repertory Theatre, Albany, New York, 1996. In the System. HumaniTech* Short Play Project Premiere, University at Albany, March 2003. Children's books Charlie Malarkey and the Belly Button Machine (co-authored with Brendan Kennedy). New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986. Charlie Malarkey and the Singing Moose (co-authored with Brendan Kennedy). New York: Viking Children's Books, 1994. Criticism Flanagan, Thomas. O Albany!. New York Review of Books. April 25, 2002 Giamo, Benedict F. The Homeless of Ironweed: Blossoms on the Crag. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1997. Gillespie, Michael Patrick. Reading William Kennedy. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press. Lynch, Vivian Valvano. Portraits of Artists: Warriors in the Novels of William