Douglas Kenning

Douglas Kenning was conceived in Japan, born in California, raised in Virginia, and lived variously in Germany, Ohio, Texas, Scotland, Tunisia, Japan, California, and for the last fifteen years in Sicily. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He has worked professionally as a wildlife biologist, stage actor, army engineer officer, Manhattan taxi driver, academic administrator, university professor, tour guide, among other things. He has written books on Japanese and British poetry and philosophy, articles on the culture and history of Sicily, Italy, and Japan, and stage plays. He lives half of each year in Sicily, where he runs a small tour business, and half in the San Francisco Bay Area, teaching lifelong learning courses on subjects related to the histories and cultures of Mediterranean peoples.