WOW!!! I'm at a LOSS!!! Kenneth Holditch has PASSED!!!

 

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Kenneth Holditch, an English professor and Tennessee Williams scholar who helped establish festivals honoring the playwright in New Orleans and two other cities, died Wednesday at his New Orleans home. He was 89.

Holditch, a professor at the University of New Orleans, took his enthusiasm for Williams to the streets by organizing walking tours to show visitors the French Quarter addresses associated with the Pulitzer Prize winner’s life and work. By conducting these excursions, “Kenneth brought to public attention Tennessee Williams’ life and reverence for New Orleans,” said Peggy Scott Laborde, past president of the The Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival.

RIP, Mr. Holditch.

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Kenneth Holditch, UNO professor and Tennessee Williams scholar, dies at 89

Kenneth Holditch, an English professor who helped establish festivals honoring Tennesse Williams in New Orleans, has died.

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• Vanessa Barnes

  Wow, and he was responsible for getting John Kennedy Toole's only other novel, Neon Bible (which he wrote as a teen!) published. I read it and it was brilliant. Wish I could have met and conversed with Mr. Holditch, what an awesome person.

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