J Gerald Kennedy

J. Gerald Kennedy is Boyd Professor of English at Louisiana State University.?He is the author of? Imagining Paris: Exile, Writing, and American Identity ?and coeditor (with Jackson R.?Bryer) of? French Connections: Hemingway and Fitzgerald Abroad .?He was advisory editor of?volumes 1-3?of the? Letters of Ernest Hemingway, ?under the general editorship of Sandra?Spanier, and he is coediting a forthcoming volume of?Hemingway?letters, ?the final years.?He?is also the author of a number of essays...See more

J. Gerald Kennedy is Boyd Professor of English at Louisiana State University.?He is the author of? Imagining Paris: Exile, Writing, and American Identity ?and coeditor (with Jackson R.?Bryer) of? French Connections: Hemingway and Fitzgerald Abroad .?He was advisory editor of?volumes 1-3?of the? Letters of Ernest Hemingway, ?under the general editorship of Sandra?Spanier, and he is coediting a forthcoming volume of?Hemingway?letters, ?the final years.?He?is also the author of a number of essays on Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and expatriate Paris, and he?edited? Modern American Short Story Sequences: Composite Fictions and Fictive Communities .?His publications on nineteenth-century American literature?include? Poe, Death, and the Life of Writing ?and (with fellowship support from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the NEH) a wide-ranging cultural history, ? Strange Nation: Literary Nationalism and Cultural Conflict in the Age of Poe. See less