The Potato Chip Man and Other Stories

About the Book

In this volume of short stories, Jenkins writes about a wide variety of people. They include a woman who must decide whether or not to live with her senile father, a variety of characters who greet a Civil War general in a Southern Hotel, a son who questions his relationship with his father. Many of the stories have Kentucky as their locale. The title story—“The Potato Chip Man” follows the exploitive behavior of a young man as he takes advantage of a vacuum created in a small town.

About the Author

Kendall Jenkins has a varied background. Six years in the Marine Corps during World War II. A veteran and survivor of Iwo Jima. He has a BA degree in Political Science. His career spanned 30 years in the Parole branch of the California Youth Authority and the Dept. of Corrections. He has contributed articles to technical journals such as Public Personnel Review, Police, and the Youth Authority Quarterly. His novel Foley's Folly was published in 2000.