[2][3] After his parents divorced, he moved at age 5 with his mother and younger brother (born Marvin Schmoker) to San Francisco.
[1] At the beginning of WWII, age 10, Kenn and his brother attended a Catholic boy's boarding school in Marin County across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco.
[6] Kenn designed the covers for two of Brautigan's poetry collections, The Galilee Hitch-Hiker (1958)[7] and Lay the Marble Tea (1959).
Kenn Davis (together with John Stanley) is the creator of Carver Bascombe, a black Vietnam veteran with a military police background who is a private investigator in San Francisco.
[5][11] This character first appeared in 1976 in the mystery novel The Dark Side[12] that Kenn coauthored with John Stanley.
[5] Kenn Davis was an Edgar Award Nominee twice, once in 1977 for The Dark Side (with John Stanley) and again in 1985 for Words Can Kill.