Traces the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's career, reporting on a three-day celebration held in his honor in Albany, scene of many of his novels.

Report of the author's reading from a manuscript described as "the big Albany political novel William Kennedy has always intended to write."

Associate director at the Institute discusses the Albany, New York, setting of Kennedy's novel "The Flaming Corsage."

Read about the life and work of the founding director of the NYS Writers Institute and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Ironweed."

Sixth novel in the author's Albany Cycle, "The Flaming Corsage," follows an Irish immigrant's search for his place in turn-of-the-century Albany.