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name: K. Limakatso Kendall
about: Kendall (aka K. Limakatso Kendall, aka Kathryn McQueen Kendall,aka Kathryn Linn Kendall) began reading Little Golden Books in Hendersonville, NC when she was three. At six, in an isolation cell with rheumatic fever for a year at Keesler Air Force Base Hospital in Mississippi, she began writing to stay sane. As she grew up in Mississippi, NYC, Hawaii, and Georgia, near the Air Force bases where her step-father was stationed, she read thousands of books, including the entire Nancy Drew series and everything the Bronte sisters wrote. Since then she has lived in Tucson AZ, Corpus Christi TX, New Orleans LA, NYC, College Station TX, Austin TX, Northampton MA, and (for six years) southern Africa. Now she's in Portland OR. She has published a hund Kendall (aka K. Limakatso Kendall, aka Kathryn McQueen Kendall,aka Kathryn Linn Kendall) began reading Little Golden Books in Hendersonville, NC when she was three. At six, in an isolation cell with rheumatic fever for a year at Keesler Air Force Base Hospital in Mississippi, she began writing to stay sane. As she grew up in Mississippi, NYC, Hawaii, and Georgia, near the Air Force bases where her step-father was stationed, she read thousands of books, including the entire Nancy Drew series and everything the Bronte sisters wrote. Since then she has lived in Tucson AZ, Corpus Christi TX, New Orleans LA, NYC, College Station TX, Austin TX, Northampton MA, and (for six years) southern Africa. Now she's in Portland OR. She has published a hundred or so poems, short stories, and articles; has written six books collaboratively (three published); edited a collection of plays by women in the time of Queen Anne (published); and has written five plays (several were one-woman shows she performed herself); an academic book (unpublished); and a volume of edited journals (published in New Orleans just before Katrina and lost in the flood). She also dabbled in videography and made one half-hour biographical video called Dear Little Weed and made an edited interview with Ngugi wa Thiong'o; then created six videos using community video techniques in Lesotho, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, and Malawi. She has four children and read to them for many years. She made her living various ways, most consistently as a college teacher of drama and English. She joined Goodreads in 9/07 and is trying to remember what she has read, as a way of virtually reassembling the bookshelves she would have if she hadn't been a lifelong nomad, dispersing her possessions with every upheaval. The fact that this is an impossible and humbling task (she has forgotten more books than she remembers), does give her pause, but not enough pause to stop her. What's the point? she asks herself. Perhaps some misguided attempt to recapture lost time? To celebrate past pleasures? Like an external hard drive? Maybe. ...more