<P> Richard Jerome Kennedy (born December 23, 1932, in Jefferson City, Missouri), is an American writer of children's books and a supporter of the Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship . He was the first to suggest that John Ford was the author of the 578 - line poem A Funeral Elegy which in 1995 had been touted by Donald Foster as being written by William Shakespeare . </P> <P> He was educated at Portland State University (B.A., liberal arts, 1958) and earned a teaching certificate in elementary education from the University of Oregon . Teaching elementary school proved unsatisfactory, so he tried other jobs, including bookstore owner, deep sea fisherman, moss picker, custodian, cabdriver, and archivist, before turning to writing . </P>

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