User:AlbinoFlea/sandbox/Kendrick

Early life and education
Dolores Teresa Kendrick was born on September 7, 1927 in Washington, DC to parents Josephine, a musician and teacher, and Robert "Ike", founder and publisher of the Capitol Spotlight. She grew up in the LeDroit Park neighborhood near Howard University. She attended Dunbar High School where she began writing poetry, and went on to Miners Teachers College to study English. She earned a master's degree in linguistics from Georgetown University in 1970 as part of the Experienced Teacher Fellowship Program.

Educator
She designed the humanities curriculum for D.C.'s School Without Walls. In 1963 she received a Fulbright exchange in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Kendrick was a Vira I. Heinz Professor Emerita at Phillips Exeter Academy.

Poet
She adapted The Women of Plums for the theater, which won the 1997 New York New Playwrights Award.

She adapted The Women of Plums into a CD, The Color of Dusk, with Wall Matthews and Aleta Greene.

Kendrick died at her Washington, D.C. home on November 7, 2017, aged 90, from complications of cancer.

Through the Ceiling
In 1969, Percy Johnston, who had been working with Kendrick on Dasein, suggested that she send some of her work to Paul Breman, who had begun publishing The Heritage Series of Black Poetry. Upon receiving the manuscript, Bremen wrote back to Kendrick informing her that he was impressed with the work but did not feel as though it was a good fit for the series. The two remained friendly and continued to correspond, and in 1973 Kendrick sent another collection of her work to Bremen who published it as Through the Ceiling.