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Kenneth Womack (born January 24, 1966) is an American writer, literary critic, public speaker, and authority on the cultural influence of the Beatles. He is the author of the bestselling Solid State: The Story of Abbey Road and the End of the Beatles and the forthcoming John Lennon, 1980: The Last Days in the Life.

Kenneth Womack was born in Houston, Texas, United States, and is Dean of the Wayne D. McMurray School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Monmouth University, where he also serves as Professor of English. He is the author of four novels, as well as the author and editor of numerous volumes of literary and cultural criticism.

Womack's multiple books devoted to the Beatles include Reading the Beatles: Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, and the Fab Four (2006; with Todd F. Davis), Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles (2007), The Cambridge Companion to the Beatles (2009), which was named by The Independent as the 2009 Music Book of the Year, and The Beatles Encyclopedia: Everything Fab Four (2014) and its revised paperback edition (2016). In 2017 he released the first volume in his full-length biography of Beatles producer Sir George Martin, Maximum Volume: The Life of Beatles Producer George Martin (The Early Years: 1926-1966), and the second volume, Sound Pictures: The Life of Beatles Producer George Martin (The Later Years: 1966-2016), in 2018. Womack is the Music Culture writer for Salon and also writes a regular column on the Beatles for CultureSonar entitled Everything Fab Four. His work has appeared in Slate, Billboard, Time, Variety, NBC News, The Guardian, USA Today, and The Philadelphia Inquirer.