I chose this week’s file because I was curious to see what accounted for its bulk. Instead of a pile of old correspondence and contracts, nearly everything in the Kennedy folder is supplementary material. And as it turns out, it contains information on not one author, but two!

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Curious about Word Stems, I pulled the book out of the library and was delighted to turn to this entry, which seems fitting given the amount of crime fiction we now publish.

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Now if I could just find a computer with a floppy drive…

Kate Kennedy is the author of the novel End Over End, published by Soho Press in 2001.

John Kennedy (not that one) is the author of Word Stems: A Dictionary, published by Soho Press in 1996 (and originally published in 1890).

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