Ronald W. Kenyon, author, educator and lecturer, is the author of twenty-five books, including compilations of essays about France, Florida and the Middle East and ten volumes of photography.
Born and raised in Ashland, Kentucky, Kenyon graduated from the University of Michigan where he studied English, French, Spanish and political science. He was awarded two Hopwood creative writing awards and his one-act play, MANSON, was produced. He pursued graduate studies at Stanford and St. Lawrence University and was certified as a French-English liaison interpreter by the U.S. Department of State in 1990.
Ronald W. Kenyon spent over half a century living and working in France, Washington, D.C. and Saudi Arabia.
MONVILLE: FORGOTTEN LUMINARY OF THE FRENCH ENLIGHTENMENT, his biography of an eighteenth-century French aristocrat, François Racine de Monville (1734-1797), was published in English in 2013 and in French in 2015.
As a free-lance Paris-based photographer, Kenyon's works received numerous awards and publications in France. Sixty-five of his photographs of Asir Provence, Saudi Arabia, were exhibited in 1980 and a selection was published in 2020 as ASIR: THE UNKNOWN ARABIA.
In 1995, as liaison officer, Kenyon accompanied renowned composer Terence Blanchard and his band on a month-long tour of seven countries of Latin America sponsored by the United States Information Agency. He documented the tour in an essay, "Labios de Fuego," published in STATUES OF LIBERTY: REAL STORIES FROM FRANCE, in 2015.
QSL: HOW I TRAVELED THE WORLD AND NEVER LEFT HOME, the first book published anywhere reproducing in color a collection of vintage reception cards from shortwave radio stations around the world, was released in 2020 and reviewed favorably in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Taiwan and Japan.
In 2021, Kenyon released a portfolio of his color photographs of the Eiffel Tower at night accompanied by an essay by French novelist and playwright Claire Béchet evoking the Tower, published in English and French editions.
Ronald W. Kenyon relocated to West Palm Beach, Florida, in 2015 where he continues writing, publishing and lecturing.
January 2022
