Perry Carlton Lentz (born March 27, 1943, in Anniston, Alabama)[1] is an author and professor emeritus of English language and literature at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio.
The son of Lucian Boyd Lentz, a sales executive, and his wife, Adelaide Carleton Sterne, Perry Lentz attended Kenyon College, and was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon,[1] graduating with his Bachelor of Arts in English in 1964, summa cum laude with Highest Honors in English.
In 1978–79, he was visiting professor at Exeter University in England, where he established a joint program with Kenyon.
[5] In honor of his distinguished tenure and teaching excellence, Kenyon College opened the Lentz House for its Department of English in 2009.
Lending his name to the new English building places Lentz in the ranks of other highly distinguished Kenyon faculty, such as John Crowe Ransom, for whom Ransom Hall, Kenyon's Admissions building, was renamed in 1958.