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"Paul Murray Kendall" was an American academic and historian.
Kendall was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania/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. In 1937, while studying for a Doctor of Philosophy/Ph.D, he became an instructor in English at the Ohio University in Athens, Ohio/Athens, Ohio. He obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1939, and continued as professor at Ohio University.
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 William Shakespeare/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.
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