Kenneth S. Lynn

{{Short description|American author, historian, and professor (1923 – 2001)}}

Kenneth Schuyler Lynn (June 17, 1923U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 – June 24, 2001) was an American author, historian, and professor who was known for his biographical studies of famous people such as Mark Twain, Charlie Chaplin, Ernest Hemingway,{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/03/arts/kenneth-s-lynn-78-biographer-of-hemingway-and-chaplin.html |title=Kenneth S. Lynn, 78, Biographer of Hemingway and Chaplin |accessdate=2012-04-05 | work=The New York Times |first=Wolfgang |last=Saxon |date=2001-07-03}} Theodore Dreiser, William Dean Howells, and Harriet Beecher Stowe.{{cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2001/06/30/kenneth-s-lynn-78/ |title=Kenneth S. Lynn, 78 Award-winning biographer |access-date=2012-04-05 | work=Chicago Tribune |date=2001-06-30}} Born in Cleveland, he graduated from Harvard College and later taught at Johns Hopkins University for 20 years.