Kendall, Paul Murray

Paul Murray Kendall (PMK) was an American academic and historian. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. PMK received an A.B. and an A.M. from the University of Virginia (UV). In 1937, while studying for a Ph.D. from UV, PMK was an English instructor at Ohio University (OU). His focus was Renaissance and Shakespeare. He was appointed Distinguished Professor of English in 1959, one of the first three academics at OU to receive this honor. In 1970 Kendall retired from OU to become head of the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Kansas.

PMK published many scholarly articles, plays and novels. In 1950 PMK was awarded a Marburgh Prize from The Johns Hopkins University for a three-act play The Ant Village . In 1952 he was awarded a Ford Foundation Fellowship which assisted him in completing his best known work Richard III . Other works include: Warwick the Kingmaker, History of Land Warfare, The Yorkist Age, King Louis XIV and My Brother Chilperic .

From the guide to the Paul Murray Kendall papers, 1950-1970, (Ohio University)