Kenneth L. Donelson, 85, a well-known professor of English, and Director of ASU’s English Education program throughout the 1990s until his retirement in 2002, died on April 30, 2013. He taught high school English for thirteen years in Iowa, and then earned his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1963. Shortly afterwards, he joined the faculty at ASU. He was well known throughout the United States for work against school censorship and had been asked to testify in court or to speak to groups of English teachers or librarians in every one of the continental United States. For many years, he edited the Arizona English Bulletin, and between 1980 and 1987 was the co-editor of The English Journal, which at the time was the major publication for the National Council of Teachers of English. He is also co-author of Literature for Today’s Young Adults, the leading textbook in the field for English teachers, school librarians, and reading teachers. It is now in its ninth edition. He is survived by his wife, Marie, two daughters, one son, seven grandchildren and eight great grands. Private services were held on May 29 at the VA Cemetery in Prescott. (Source: Arizona Republic and remembrance by Alleen Pace Nilsen, Professor Emerita of English, ASU, appearing on the Department of English website.) (Photo: ASU Professor Emeritus Ken Donelson and ASU's Hayden Library Special Collections Librarian Marilyn Wurzburger (4/29/2003), from article: The Ken Donelson Special Collection of Juvenile Literature by Jim Blasingame, published online in The Alan Review, Virginia Tech, Digital Library and Archives, Spring/Summer, 2003)