Kemp Malone

Kemp Malone (March 14, 1889 – October 13, 1971) was an American medievalist, etymologist, philologist, and specialist in Chaucer.

[1] Born in Minter City, Mississippi, to an academic family, Kemp Malone graduated from Emory College (as it then was) in 1907, with the ambition of mastering all the languages that impinged upon the development of Middle English.

When World War I broke out, he served two years in the United States Army and was discharged with the rank of captain.

With Louise Pound and Arthur G. Kennedy, he founded the journal American Speech, "to present information about English in America in a form appealing to general readers".

American speech, the English language, the historical Arthur (his suggestion was the Roman dux Lucius Artorius Castus),[6] Cædmon and Beowulf (he edited a facsimile of the Thorkelin transcripts, 1951), Deor – all were subjects among his hundreds of publications.