William Kenneth Holditch (September 18, 1933 – December 7, 2022) was a Professor Emeritus of English at the University of New Orleans.
His dissertation was entitled The Development of Techniques in the Novels of John Dos Passos, and was the first Ph.D. granted at Ole Miss.
[3] Holditch began his academic teaching career at Christian Brothers College Memphis, where he taught for three years.
[8][9] Holditch also served as the book review editor for the States-Item newspaper and the Vieux Carré Courier.
[10] Holditch conducted research on the New Orleans author John Kennedy Toole, who wrote A Confederacy of Dunces, preparing for a biography.