Occupation novelist, professor Name Raymond Kennedy Genre Literary fiction | Period 1963–2003 Nationality American Role Novelist | |
Born March 3, 1934
Wilbraham, Massachusetts, United States ( 1934-03-03 ) Died February 18, 2008, New York City, New York, United States Books Ride a cockhorse, The romance of Eleanor, Contours of Culture in Indonesia, Lulu incognito, The flower of the republic Similar People Henry James, Samuel Beckett, Emily Dickinson, James Joyce, Nikolai Gogol | ||
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Raymond Kennedy (March 3, 1934 – February 18, 2008) was an American novelist. He was born in Wilbraham, Massachusetts to James Patrick Kennedy and Orise Belanger and was the youngest of three brothers. Kennedy spent his formative years in Belchertown and Holyoke. He would later set many of his books in the region.
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After serving in the United States Army, Kennedy returned home and, under the G.I. Bill, studied at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, graduating in 1960 with a degree in English. While there, he studied under the poets Ted Hughes and Joseph Langland, as well as writing teachers Bob Tucker and Doris Abramson. Shortly after graduating, Kennedy moved to New York City's Greenwich Village. In the 1960s and 1970s he worked as a staff editor, first for Collier's Encyclopedia and later for the Encyclopedia Americana. In 1982, he joined the faculty of Columbia University, where he taught creative writing until his retirement in 2006.
Kennedy's archives are maintained at Boston University's Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center and are open to the public.
Literary works
His novels include: