Biography:.

College professor; writer. Born– March 27, 1943, Anniston. Parents– Lucien Boyd and Carleton (Sterne) Lentz. Married– Jane Anderson, July 10, 1965. Children– Two. Education– Kenyon College, A.B., 1964; Vanderbilt University, M.A., 1966, Ph.D., 1970. Taught, Vanderbilt University, 1964-1969; Kenyon College, 1969-. Awarded emeritus status on his retirement at Kenyon.  Lentz House, home of the English Department at Kenyon, was named in his honor.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online; Directory of American Scholars, 1982.

Publication(s):

The Falling Hills. New York; Scribner, 1967.

It Must Be Now the Kingdom Coming. New York; Crown, 1972.

Perish from the Earth:  Being the True Narrative of John Patrick Callaghan, Colonel, North-Texas Guards. XOXOX Press, 2008.

Private Fleming at Chancellorsville:  The Red Badge of Courage and the Civil War.  University of  Missouri Press, 2006.