Richard Kennedy
, 1910 - 1989
Richard Kennedy was an English illustrator from Cambridge. After leaving college at 16, Kennedy was hired by the Hogarth Press in 1928. Hogarth was run by Virginia and Leonard Woolf, the latter of whom was friends with Kennedy's uncle. Kennedy was employed to undertake various duties, among which included designing book covers. He left Hogarth after making a number of errors in his work, and he later recounted his experiences at Hogarth in his memoir A Boy at the Hogarth Press (1972). Subsequently, Kennedy went on to have a successful career as a book illustrator, most notably supplying images for some of Rosemary Sutcliff's novels.
Source:
Richard Kennedy, A Boy at the Hogarth Press, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1978.
modernistarchives.com (accessed: July 12, 2021).
Bio prepared by David Walsh, University of Kent, djw43@kent.ac.uk
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