Ronald Kenyon was born and raised in Ashland, Kentucky. He was admitted to the Honors Program and received a bachelor's degree in English from the The University of Michigan, where he was awarded two Avery Hopwood Awards awards in creative writing.The recipient of a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship, he attended graduate school at Stanford University. He also studied at St. Lawrence University under a National Defense Education Act scholarship.
In 1967, Ronald Kenyon relocated to France and was an eyewitness to the Events of May 1968, [the May-June uprising in France]. At the time he discovered the Désert de Retz in the mid 1970's, he was living in Fontenay-le-Fleury, near Paris and working in the training department of Total, the world's fourth largest integrated, international energy company.
Currently, Ronald Kenyon is living in Paris. He is preparing his book, The Green-tea Smell of New-mown Hay: A Walking Discovery of France, for publication. The book describies his walking trips in Auvergne, Brittany, Alsace, The Cevennes, Provence, Rouergue [Aveyron], the Loire Valley, the Emblavez Region and the Way of Saint James.
A lover of Brazilian music for many years, Ronald Kenyon has been a contributor to the rec.music.brazilian newsgroup and other forums on the Usenet--now known as Google Groups--since 1996.
Ronald Kenyon is a member of the Board of Directors of Le Désert de Retz Jardin des Lumières, a non-profit organization based in Chambourcy, France, and dedicated to the preservation and restoration of the Désert de Retz.
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