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At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
William Kennedy

Born: January 16, 1928 (age 97)
Bio: William Joseph Kennedy is an American writer and journalist born and raised in Albany, New York, to William J. Kennedy and to Mary E. McDonald. Kennedy was raised a Catholic.
Known for:
- Ironweed (1983)
- Billy Phelan's Greatest Game (1978)
- The flaming corsage
- O Albany! (1983)
- An Albany trio