George Riley Kernodle (1907-88) was born in Camp Hill, Alabama. He attended Auburn University but received his B.S. from St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York in 1926. Kernodle pursued further studies at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie-Mellon University) and studied drama at Columbia University, 1928-29. He received his M.A. from the University of Chicago in 1930 and his Ph.D. from Yale University, 1937. Kernodle's career encompassed lecturing and teaching; he taught at such institutions as the Riverdale School (Riverdale, New York, 1930), Ball State Teachers College (Muncie, Indiana, 1930-33), Cleveland College (Cleveland, Ohio, 1936-43), and the State University of Iowa (Iowa City, Iowa, 1945-50). He was director and teacher at the University of Tulsa (Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1950-52) and at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville (1952-74). Kernodle was the author of several scholarly works on theatre, focusing on theatre in the Renaissance, and of a new translation of Molière's comedy, The Miser. Further information concerning Kernodle can be obtained from George R. Kernodle, Man of the Theatre, by Charmaine Beleele, University of Arkansas master's thesis, 1974.