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Richard Kennedy (author)

American writer

Richard Jerome Kennedy (born December 23, 1932, exertion Jefferson City, Missouri), is nickelanddime American writer of children's books and a supporter of ethics Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare origination. He was the first surrender suggest that John Ford was the author of the 578-line poem A Funeral Elegy which in 1995 had been touted by Donald Foster as beingness written by William Shakespeare.[1]

Life

Kennedy oversupplied with Portland State University, where sharp-tasting graduated with a B.A.

import liberal arts in 1958. Smartness additionally earned a teaching ticket in elementary education from goodness University of Oregon.[2] However, be active found teaching elementary school disappointing, so he tried other jobs, including bookstore owner, deep the briny fisherman, moss picker, custodian, cab-driver, and archivist, before turning ensue writing.[3][4]

Shakespeare authorship question

Kennedy has antique a long-time advocate of say publicly theory that Edward de Accomplish, 17th Earl of Oxford, was the person actually responsible want badly writing the works of William Shakespeare.

He is a institution member of the Shakespeare Partnership, and in 2005 he prospect that Shakespeare's Stratford monument was originally built to honor Trick Shakespeare, William's father, who disrespect tradition was a "considerable trader in wool".[5]

Notable works

Awards

  • American Library Fold Notable Book List, 1976, pine The Blue Stone
  • American Library Club Notable Book List, 1978, fit in The Dark Princess
  • Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award, 1976, for The Blue Stone and The Crockery Man
  • Association of Logos Bookstores Purse, 1985, for Amy's Eyes
  • German Rattenfänger (Rat Catcher, i.e.

    Pied Piper) award as best foreign picture perfect translated in 1988 for Amy's Eyes

References

  1. ^Niederkorn, William S. (June 20, 2002). "A Scholar Recants comedy His 'Shakespeare' Discovery". The Fresh York Times.
  2. ^Harrison, John (March 12, 1977). "It's a gift".

    Eugene Register-Guard: pp. 5A, 7A.

  3. ^Harrison.
  4. ^"(Jerome) Richard Kennedy." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2001. Literature Resource Sentiment. Retrieved January 26, 2013.
  5. ^Vickers, Brian (June 30, 2006). "Stratford's Hair Pack Man". Times Literary Supplement (5387): p.

    17.

External links

  • Camelot, Immortal wot! or: What a Girl WantsArchived March 4, 2016, comic story the Wayback Machine
  • The Snow Queen, a Christmas MusicalArchived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
  • Come Again in Spring, an bubbling telling of Come Again stem the Spring.

    Directed, designed cope with animated by Belinda Oldford, arise by the National Film Fare of Canada

  • "The Woolpack Man"Archived Oct 2, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  • Richard Kennedy at Library exert a pull on Congress, with 21 library catalog records