Richard Kendall Munkittrick

Richard Kendall Munkittrick (1853–1911) was a humorist and poet who spent most of his life in the United States and worked on the staff of the New York weekly Judge, which he edited from about 1901 to 1906.

He wrote light verse for Judge and other magazines, including the verses that accompanied “Bugville Life”; his nature epigrams such as “A Bulb” were taken up by anthologists.