Joshua C Kendall

Joshua C Kendall

Author, Journalist & Biographer

Joshua C. Kendall is an award winning journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Mother Jones and BusinessWeek, among other publications.

Books

First Dads
America’s Obsessives
The Forgotten Founding Father
The Man Who Made Lists

About

Joshua C. Kendall was born in New York City. He received his BA (summa cum laude) from Yale where he studied comparative literature. He also did graduate work in comparative literature at Johns Hopkins. For his exellence in reporting on psychiatry, he has received national journalism awards from both the National Mental Health Association (now Mental Health America) and the American Psychoanalytic Association.He lives in Boston where he has ample opportunity to indulge his love of squash. He is currently an Associate Fellow of Yale’s Trumbull College.

His next book, Trudeau and Doonesbury: The Cartoonist Who Turned the News into Art, will be published by Abrams Press in May of 2026.

Stories

Joshua Kendall has published stories on presidents and their families in leading magazines and newspapers. X⬈ Facebook⬈

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