November 5, 1915

Scholar and linguist Ben Kimpel was born in Fort Smith (Sebastian County). A professor of English at the University of Arkansas (UA) in Fayetteville (Washington County), Kimpel wrote the definitive biography of the eighteenth-century novelist Samuel Richardson with UA colleague Duncan Eaves.

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