Kennedy, Richard S.

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Richard S. Kennedy was born in 1920. Kennedy's dissertation (Harvard University, 1953) on novelist Thomas Wolfe, the first to make use of Wolfe manuscripts in Harvard's Houghton Library and to examine Wolfe's literary career in depth, was published by UNC Press in 1962. Kennedy was on the faculty of the University of Rochester, 1950-1957; the University of Witchita, 1957-1964; and Temple University, 1964-1988, emeritus 1988-2002. He continued to work on Wolfe throughout his career, but also wrote extensively on e.e. cummings and Robert Browning. Kennedy died in 2002.

From the description of Richard S. Kennedy papers on Thomas Wolfe, 1949-2000. WorldCat record id: 676821335

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associatedWith Aswell, Edward C. (Edward Campbell), 1900-1958. person
associatedWith Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989. person
correspondedWith Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962 person
associatedWith Magi, Aldo P. person
associatedWith Nowell, Elizabeth. person
associatedWith Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 1869-1935 person
associatedWith Thomas Wolfe Society. corporateBody
associatedWith Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989. person
associatedWith Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938 person
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North Carolina
United States
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American literature
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Birth 1920-10-13

Death 2003-12-29

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English

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