Kuykendall, Roger

Roger Kuykendall is an author about whom little public information is available. Two of his works are currently held in the collection: All Day September and We Didn't Do Anything Wrong, Hardly. Because his dates of birth and death, nationality, and professional career cannot be confirmed, this note can only sketch his writing on the basis of these titles. Judging from the two works and the way they are collected, his writing seems to center on everyday situations and the choices of ordinary people, and the titles carry a distinctly colloquial and ironic tone—most notably the almost self-exculpatory negative phrasing of We Didn't Do Anything Wrong, Hardly, which suggests narratives concerned with blurred moral boundaries and the shifting of responsibility. Overall, Kuykendall's profile still awaits further material; readers may approach his work as a way of observing how ordinary people face misdeeds and consequences in the course of ordinary days.