Author · 1929 – 2026

X. J. Kennedy

American poet, translator, anthologist, editor, and author of children's literature and textbooks on English literature and poetry.

Works

An introduction to poetry
1966
The Bedford guide for college writers
1987
Literature
2006
Bedford Reader
1991
Literature
2004
Brief Bedford Reader
1994
An Introduction to Fiction
1987
Bedford Guide for College Writers with Reader
2012
Bedford Guide for College Writers with Reader, Research Manual, and Handbook
2010
Backpack literature
2011
Literature
2010
Knock at a star
1982
In a prominent bar in Secaucus
2007
Backpack Literature
2012
Literature
2004
Literature
2004
Student's Companion for the Bedford Guide for College Writers
2019
Kennedy/Gioia
2006
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama
2007
Elympics
1999
Bedford Reader
2012
Literature
2003
Literature
2002
The Bedford reader
1988
Instructor's manual to accompany The Bedford reader
1982
Achieve for the Bedford Guide for College Writers with Reader, Research Manual, and Handbook (1-Term Access; Multi-Course)
2022
Achieve for the Bedford Reader (1-Term Access; Multi-Course)
2022
Mark Twain's frontier
1963
Talking like the rain
1992
Brats
1991
Instructor's manual to accompany Literature
1979
An introduction to poetry
1966
Messages
1973
Literature
2000
Literature
2005
Literature Collection
2012
The Bedford Guide for College Writers with Reader, Research Manual, and Handbook
2007
Nude descending a staircase
1961
The phantom ice cream man
1979
Handbook of Literary Terms
2012
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