Kennedy, Richard
Kennedy, Richard (1932– ),prolific American children's writer, with a keen ear for the folkloristic rhythms of the language, and an ironic sense of humour. Many of Kennedy's literary folk tales thematically invoke the misadventures in the quest for ‘true love’, and the redemptive powers of that love when it is found. In the 1990s Kennedy wrote a successful Oregon production of a musical based on Hans Christian Andersen's ‘The Snow Queen’. Sixteen of Kennedy's bitter‐sweet tales and novellas are collected in Richard Kennedy: Collected Stories (1987). His mythopoeic and apocalyptic Amy's Eyes (1985), a novel marketed for children, was awarded the German Rattenfänger (Rat Catcher, i.e. Pied Piper) award as best foreign book translated in 1988.
Peter F. Neumeyer
Bibliography
Neumeyer, Peter F., ‘Introducing Richard Kennedy’,...
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