Kenneth Kempton

Kenneth Kempton (1891-1955) was a fiction writer born and raised in Massachusetts. His novels include Old Man Greenlaw (1936) and Monday go to Meeting (1937). He was a MacDowell Fellow four times and wrote many articles and stories about Maine, where he spent summers fishing with his father. Kempton was an English instructor at Harvard University and Radcliffe College, teaching many pupils whose names would later become well-known in the literary canon over the years.