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X. J. Kennedy (born Joseph Charles Kennedy on August 21, 1929, in Dover, New Jersey) is an American poet, translator, anthologist, editor, and author of children's literature and textbooks on English literature and poetry.
Lena Kennedy (1914–1986, England, f/nf) Margaret Kennedy (1896–1967, England, f/d) Miranda Kennedy (born 1975, US, nf) Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968, US) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (born 1954, US) Ted Kennedy (1932–2009, US, Boston) Walter Kennedy (c. 1455 – c. 1508, Scotland, p) X. J. Kennedy (born 1929, US, p/nf/ch)
It is edited by X. J. Kennedy, [1] Dorothy M. Kennedy, and Jane E. Aaron. It is widely used in freshman composition courses at colleges across the United States. The eleventh edition of the book is composed of over seventy essays, one short story, and one poem.
Profiles in Courage is a 1956 volume of short biographies describing acts of bravery and integrity by eight United States senators.The book, authored by John F. Kennedy with Ted Sorensen as a ghostwriter, profiles senators who defied the opinions of their party and constituents to do what they felt was right and suffered severe criticism and losses in popularity as a result.
Timothy Steele (born January 22, 1948) is an American poet, who generally writes in meter and rhyme.His early poems, which began appearing in the 1970s in such magazines as Poetry, The Southern Review, and X. J. Kennedy's Counter/Measures, are said to have anticipated and contributed to the revival of traditional verse associated with the New Formalism. [1]
John Kennedy Toole (/ ˈ t uː l /; December 17, 1937 – March 26, 1969) was an American novelist from New Orleans, Louisiana, whose posthumously published novel, A Confederacy of Dunces, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981; he also wrote The Neon Bible. Although several people in the literary world felt his writing skills were ...
Jacqueline Lee Kennedy Onassis [a] (née Bouvier / ˈ b uː v i eɪ /; July 28, 1929 – May 19, 1994) was an American writer, book editor, and socialite who served as the first lady of the United States from 1961 to 1963, as the wife of president John F. Kennedy.
His works detailed the formation and development of the CIA, the origins of the Cold War, the U-2 incident, the Vietnam War, and the John F. Kennedy assassination. Prouty wrote that he believed Kennedy's assassination was a coup d'état , and that there is a secret, global "power elite," which operates covertly to protect its interests—and in ...