Dr. Kenneth Tucker was born December 2, 1940, in Louisville, Kentucky. His parents were Earl and Catherine Tucker (née Weber). He received his B. A. (1963) and his M.A (1965) from the University of Louisville. In 1970 he received his Ph. D. from the University of Kentucky. In that same year he was employed by Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky, where was promoted to full professor and continued to teach until his full retirement in 2001.

Kenneth Tucker's academic specialties are Shakespeare and Elizabethan drama, and for nearly thirty years he taught introductory and graduate Shakespeare courses to numerous students of Western Kentucky. Of course, he also taught courses in freshman composition, general humanities and introductions to literature, as well as surveys of English and continental literature of the Renaissance in translation plus non-dramatic literature of the Renaissance.

He has written a number of book reviews, including a number for The Shakespeare Newsletter. He has also contributed reviews of British productions of Shakespeare to the same periodical. He has had articles published on the following writers of the English Renaissance: Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Beaumont and Fletcher, John Webster, John Ford, and Thomas Middleton. He has also written on such diverse writers as H. G. Wells, Torquato Tasso, Robert Penn Warren, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and H. P. Lovecraft. He has also published articles on the Boris Karloff-Bela Lugosi horror film classic The Black Cat and upon the 1960's enigmatic cult television series The Prisoner.

Dr. Tucker now devotes his time to reading, studying foreign languages, and writing.