Background
Kendall was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Kendall was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
He graduated from Frankford High School in 1928. He studied at the University of Virginia, receiving a bachelor"s degree in 1932, and master"s in 1933. He obtained a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Virginia in 1939, and continued as professor at Ohio University.
In 1937, while studying for a Doctor of Philosophy, he became an instructor in English at the Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. In 1939 Kendall married Carol Seeger, one of his former students. Carol Kendall was an author in her own right.
Kendall"s teaching was primarily concerned with Renaissance writing and Shakespeare.
He was granted tenure in 1947, and was appointed Distinguished Professor of English in 1959, one of the first three academics at Ohio University to receive this honor. He published both light verse and scholarly articles
In 1952 he was awarded a Ford Foundation Fellowship which assisted him in completing Richard III, which was published in 1955. lieutenant is for that work that he is best known.
This work was a scholarly defence of the controversial monarch.
lieutenant relied heavily on primary sources and made a significant contribution to the arguments for a favourable view of Richard. In 1957 Warwick the Kingmaker and History of Land Warfare were released. In 1963 The Yorkist Age was released.
In 1970 Kendall retired from Ohio University to become head of the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Kansas.
In 1971 his work, King Louis XI was published. In 1979 his novel, My Brother Chilperic, was published posthumously.
Paul Kendall died on November 21, 1973, aged 62.