Jude southerland kessler biography
She was an English instructor at The University of Maryland and at Troy State University in Alabama....
Jude Southerland Kessler
Author, The John Lennon Series
Jude Southerland Kessler was born in Alexandria, Louisiana.
In 1971, she attended Northwestern State University, finishing two degrees (in English and history) in three years. She won a graduate assistantship to The University of Maryland in 1974 and received her master’s degree in English in 1976.
Jude Southerland Kessler grew up in Natchitoches, Louisiana, and is currently living in Monroe, LA; she is working on the fourth book of her nine-book.
Since then, Kessler has taught English on the junior high, high school, and college levels. She was an English instructor at The University of Maryland and at Troy State University in Alabama.
In 1986, Jude began researching and compiling The John Lennon Series, a 9-volume factual narrative biography on the life of John Lennon.
She collected an extensive Lennon library of over 500 books, numerous interview CDs and DVDs, stacks of periodicals, and interview tapes. In 1993, she took the first of seven trips to Liverpool, England to interview John Lennon’s childhood friends, early band members, art college mates, family members, an