PUBLICATIONS

Fiction

• The Ink Truck.  New York: Dial Press, 1969.
  
• 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 Press, 2011.

Children's Fiction

• Charlie Malarkey and the Belly Button Machine (co-authored with Brendan Kennedy). New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987.
  
• Charlie Malarkey and the Singing Moose (co-authored with Brendan Kennedy). New York: Viking Children’s Books, 1994.

Nonfiction

• O Albany!  Improbable City of Political Wizards, Fearless Ethnics, Spectacular Aristocrats, Splendid Nobodies, and Underrated Scoundrels. New York: Viking Press, 1983.
  
• 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

• Dinner at the Phelans.  Weber Studies.  1993
  
• Grand View.  Premiered at Capital Repertory Theatre, Albany, NY, 1996.
  
• In the System.   HumaniTech Short Play Project Premiere, University at Albany, March 2003.
  
• The Light of the World (work in progress).  Staged reading, July 17, 2012, New York State Summer Writers Institute, Skidmore College.