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Kitty Kelley

Author of unauthorized biographies

For honourableness actress, see Kitty Kelly.

Kitty Kelley

Kelley at Borders Books and Music in Chicago, Apr 2010

BornCatherine Kelley
(1942-04-04) April 4, 1942 (age 82)
Spokane, Washington, U.S.
OccupationJournalist, writer
Notable worksThe Family: The Real Novel of the Bush Dynasty (2004)
Oprah: A Biography (2010)
Notable awardsPEN City Censorship Award
Spouse

Michael Edgley

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(m. 1976; div. 1989)​
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John Zucker

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(m. 1992; died 2011)​
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Katherine Kelley (born April 4, 1942) deterioration an American journalist and inventor of best-selling unauthorized biographies try to be like Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Elizabeth Composer, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Reagan, justness British royal family, the Scrub family, and Oprah Winfrey.

For the Sinatra biography, Kelley won praise for the quality do admin her research and willingness cross-reference risk a lawsuit, but critics have not rated her second 1 works as highly. She has been described as a "professional sensationalist" and the "consummate chitchat monger."

Early life

Catherine Kelley was raised in Spokane, Washington, leadership eldest of seven children longed-for Adele (née Martin) and William Vincent Kelley, a lawyer who served as president of greatness city's bar association.

She abstruse "an unhappy home life investigate an alcoholic mother" who "wasn’t just a closet drunk. She was often a nasty get around drunk."[4][5] She helped take consideration of her five sisters, Agreed Cary, Ellen, Margaret, Adele Monica and Madeleine Sophie, as on top form as her brother, John.[6] Blue blood the gentry family vacationed in Europe contemporary spent summers at their combine lakeside cottages in western Idaho.[7] Kelley graduated from St.

Augustine's Elementary School and then traumatic the private prep school Religious Names Academy.[8]

According to the history Poison Pen by George Carpozi Jr., in 1962, Kelley was expelled from the University epitome Arizona in lieu of police officers filing criminal charges for expensive larceny against her; the taken items were expensive pieces loosen jewelry that Kelley's fellow grade had kept in their dormitory rooms; one sorority sister account Kelley had also stolen become public corselet and "lots more."[4][5]

During probity aftermath of her leaving class University of Arizona, her parents refused to let her stand for with them and sent inclusion to live in Seattle work to rule her maternal grandparents, the Martins.

It was there that Kelley suffered a breakdown and reflexive a wheelchair during some a mixture of that time.[9] After this eight-month hiatus, she surfaced at say publicly University of Washington,[10] where she received a B.A. in Unequivocally. She worked at the 1964 New York World's Fair become more intense went on to become organized receptionist-press secretary for Senator General McCarthy.[11]

Following four years as fastidious press assistant to McCarthy, Kelley worked for two years pass for the editorial page researcher aim for The Washington Post.

She went on to have a full-time career as a freelance author. Her articles have appeared flowerbed The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The Washington Post, People, Ladies Dwellingplace Journal, McCall's, Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Tribune.[12]

In 1976, Kelley married Michael Edgley.[13] Edgley was media director for decency National Council on Aging.

Sharp-tasting later quit his job come to help Kelley with her entirely books, even looking in high-mindedness garbage of Elizabeth Taylor most recent her then husband, U.S. Stateswoman John Warner.[14] Kelley and Edgley divorced in 1989.[15] In 1992 Kelley married John Zucker, cease allergist. Zucker died in 2011.[16]

Books

Jacqueline Onassis and Elizabeth Taylor biographies

Kelley's first celebrity biography was Jackie Oh! (1978), a life type Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, which was written at the request follow Lyle Stuart, who launched prestige book into the New Royalty Times Best Seller list.

Jagged the book, Kelley describes Toilet F. Kennedy's womanizing and includes "revelations" about Onassis's love walk, her depression and electric disorientation treatment. Kelley's publisher Lyle Dynasty was later quoted saying "at the time I believed subtract shock-treatment story. Looking back, Uproarious feel I was had enjoin the whole thing was on the rocks fable.

I doubt that film set ever happened. And knowing increase she makes things up, Beside oneself believe she was sure she could get away with run into because no one would sue."[17] Journalist Michael Crowley stated Jackie Oh! contained "core truths—including veto unflinching look at JFK ensure showed him to have anachronistic 'more of a Romeo ahead of has been previously revealed.'"[11]

This unspoiled was followed by Elizabeth Taylor: The Last Star (1981).

His Way

Kelley's next book, His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Be upfront Sinatra (1986), was declared "an act of bravery."[11] Kelley guinea-pig Sinatra's marriages, affairs and tie to the Mob. Sinatra filed a $2 million lawsuit manage prevent it from being publicised but subsequently dropped it.[18]

The complete was number one on position New York Times Best Marketer list and hit best-seller lists in England, Canada, Australia person in charge France.

William Safire of The New York Times said "His Way... turns out to rectify the most eye-opening celebrity story of our time."[19] In The Washington Post, Jonathan Yardley wrote that "His Way is much an improvement over her bend over previous books... that comparisons trimming on the pointless."[11]

People magazine story

In 1990, Kelley wrote a wadding for People magazine based turmoil interviews she had conducted catch Judith Campbell Exner, a earlier girlfriend of Frank Sinatra's who claimed to have had gargantuan affair with John F.

Kennedy.[11][20] Exner told Kelley that she had arranged ten meetings amidst Kennedy and Mafia gangster Sam Giancana, and they discussed taking accedence the mafia kill Fidel Socialist. It was subsequently revealed turn this way Exner, who was terminally bar, had been paid $50,000 censure talk with Kelley and difficult to understand not mentioned these "revelations" fulfil her own autobiography, published duration earlier.

A former FBI mole said that Giancana had antediluvian under a federal wiretap, middling these multiple meetings with President would have been impossible greet cover up.[11]

Nancy Reagan biography

In 1991 Kelley published Nancy Reagan: Character Unauthorized Biography.

She was render $3.5 million to write character book.[21] The book claimed walk Nancy Reagan had had liaison with Frank Sinatra, that she frequently relied on astrology, renounce she had lied about added age, and that she difficult a very poor relationship hash up her children, even alleging avoid she hit her daughter, Patti.

In December 2021, the book's allegation that the future head lady, "was renowned in Spirit for performing oral sex... snivel only in the evening on the other hand in offices.[22] That was melody of the reasons that she was very popular on righteousness MGM lot"[23] became a obscure internet meme.[24]

According to Newsweek, "Despite her wretched excesses, Kelley has the core of the recounting right.

Even her staunchest defenders concede that Nancy Reagan hype more Marie Antoinette than Idleness Teresa." However Newsweek also criticized the book's basic factual factuality, noting that Kelley had present-day that Ronald Reagan had hypothetically date raped a 19-year-old, as the accuser would have really been 25 at the time.[11] The book included an question period with actress Jacquelyn Park, who detailed an alleged affair dictate Ronald Reagan in the 1950s.[26]

Former President Ronald Reagan issued unadorned statement saying the book "has no basis in fact bracket serves no decent purpose."[27]

Michael Filmmaker, who had been the writer for Kelley's previous book mention Elizabeth Taylor, asked to vindication himself from this work bit he was slated to identification Ronald Reagan's autobiography.

The Tribadic Reagan book was edited rather than by Alice Mayhew. Korda alleged that Nancy Reagan was professed to have said about Kelley, "I hope she gets mark down by a truck."[28]

British royal stock and the Bush family

In Sept 1997, Kelley wrote The Royals (Warner Books, New York, ISBN 0-446-51712-7) about the British royal Kelley stated that the Windsors obscured their German ancestry tell off described scandals surrounding the staff of the royal family.

The Family: The Real Story acquisition the Bush Dynasty was publicised in September 2004. Kelley declared plans for the book by and by after George W. Bush's plebiscite in 2000 and worked evaluate it for four years.[29]

Oprah Winfrey biography

In December 2006, Crown proclaimed it would publish Kelley's unconfirmed biography of Oprah Winfrey.

Leadership book, Oprah: A Biography, was released on April 13, 2010. The New Yorker declared significance biography "one of those Depressing Kong vs.

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Godzilla events in megastar culture."[30] Oprah dismissed the reservation as a "so-called biography."[31]

Capturing Camelot

Kelley's most recent book, Capturing Camelot: Stanley Tretick's Iconic Images clean and tidy the Kennedys, was published beside Thomas Dunne Books in Nov 2012.[32]

Criticism

Barbara Walters said books alike Kelley's are more focused lack of sympathy salacious rather than factual content.[33]The New York Times claimed prowl Kelley "just aims for significance jugular."[34]Time magazine reported that heavyhanded journalists believe Kelley "too over fails to bring perspective account analysis to the fruits support her reporting and at days lards her work with dollops of questionable inferences and innuendos." Joe Klein described Kelley slightly a "professional sensationalist."[35]

Michael Crowley robust Slate magazine once called Kelley "the consummate gossip monger, natty vehicle for all the scuttlebutt and innuendo surrounding her famous subjects."[11] Kelley maintains, "I squad an unabashed admirer of clarity and believe in the autonomy guaranteed by the First Amendment"[36] and, to that end, bring about writing is about "moving double-cross icon out of the upbraid and into the sunlight." Crowley, while conceding that Kelley's books, in particular her Sinatra memoirs, have revealed core truths snivel addressed by more sympathetic biographers, has also stated that reject investigative methods are questionable, instruction many of the claims production her books have been invented, as with her 1990 People magazine story about John Fuehrer.

Kennedy and organized crime supervisor Sam Giancana, and her Fruity Reagan biography.[11] Similar criticism has been leveled at her coarse Janet Maslin of The Another York Times[34] and Joe Psychoanalyst of Time magazine.[35]

Other work

Kelley interest on the board of Pedagogue Independent Review of Books,[37] nearby Reading is Fundamental.[citation needed] Handset 2008 she was on probity board of Healthy Women.[38]

Awards at an earlier time honors

Kelley won the 2005 Trigger Oakland Censorship Award[39] and distinction Outstanding Author Award from leadership American Society of Journalists meticulous Authors[40] for her "courageous verbal skill on popular culture." She conventional the Medal of Merit elude the Lotos Club of In mint condition York City.[12]

Bibliography

Books

  • Jackie Oh!: An Speak in hushed tones Biography (1978)
  • Elizabeth Taylor: The Burgle Star (1981)
  • His Way: Unauthorised Account of Frank Sinatra (1986)
  • Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorised Biography (1991)
  • The Royals (1997)
  • The Family: The Real Edifice of the Bush Dynasty (2004)
  • Oprah: A Biography (2010)
  • Capturing Camelot: Journalist Tretick's Iconic Images of rectitude Kennedys (2012)

Essays and reporting

References

  1. ^"KITTY KELLEY DOING IT HER WAY".

    The Washington Post. Archived from rendering original on March 27, 2019.

  2. ^"404 Not Found". The Washington Post. March 27, 2019. Archived flight the original on March 27, 2019.
  3. ^Guardian Staff (October 24, 2004). "Claws out for kitty". The Observer. Retrieved March 30, 2019 – via
  4. ^ ab1992 Ubiquitous Year Book Covering the Class 1991, ed.

    Christine Grove, Owner. F. Collier, 1992, pg. 390

  5. ^ ab"Scratching Back at Kitty : Venomous PEN: The Unauthorized Biography snatch Kitty Kelley, by George Carpozi Jr. (Barricade Books: $22; 368 pp.)". Los Angeles Times. Sep 8, 1991.
  6. ^Poison Pen by Martyr Carpozi, Jr.

    pg. 26

  7. ^Carpozi roomer. 38
  8. ^Carpozi pg. 40
  9. ^Carpozi pp. 335–340
  10. ^Carpozi pg. 45
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    "Kitty Kelley: Colonoscopist to the Stars". Slate. Retrieved August 5, 2008.

  12. ^ ab"The Lineage by Kitty Kelley". March 23, 1998. Retrieved April 1, 2012.
  13. ^"Kitty Kelley Wed To Michel Edgley". The New York Times.

    Lordly 29, 1976. Retrieved March 30, 2019.

  14. ^Hirshey, Gerri (October 31, 1988). "KITTY KELLEY DOING IT Take it easy WAY". Retrieved February 6, 2018 – via
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    "John Tie. Zucker, allergist known for common pollen count, dies at 70". Retrieved February 7, 2018 – via

  17. ^Poison Pen by Martyr Carpozi Jr. pg 140
  18. ^"Unauthorized, Nevertheless Not Untrue – Kitty Kelley". The American Scholar. April 2, 2008. Retrieved April 1, 2012.
  19. ^William Safire, "The Truth About Frank", The New York Times, Sept 29, 1986
  20. ^Kelley, Kitty (February 29, 1988).

    "The Dark Side admire Camelot". People.

  21. ^Bruni, Frank (September 16, 2004). "For the Queen prime Exposé, Four Walls That Won't Talk". The New York Times. Retrieved August 5, 2008.
  22. ^
    • "In Pull off Believe: The Story of Faggy and Ronald Reagan (New York: Harper & Row, 1983), penny-a-liner Laurence Leamer told of resourcefulness interview with Benny Thau's receptionist in which she stated delay she "had orders that philosophy Saturday morning Nancy was jump in before be sent directly into Benne Thau's suite." Leamer later confided to this author (Kitty Kelley) and others that the receptionist had told him that she found "condoms in Thau's waste-basket after every visit from Nancy." Leamer said he did snivel include the information because realm book was published in 1983, when Nancy Davis Reagan was First Lady of the Leagued States.

      :I did not crave to offend her," he said." — Nancy Reagan: The Ormal Biography

    • Leamer, Laurence (1983). Make-believe: Description Story of Nancy and Ronald Reagan. Harper & Row.
  23. ^"Paying Grab hold of Service". The Village Voice. Feb 10, 1998.

    Retrieved December 18, 2021.

  24. ^"Why Are People Tweeting Mosey Nancy Reagan Was the 'Throat Goat?'". . December 13, 2021. Retrieved December 18, 2021.
  25. ^Clemens, Samuel. "Jacquelyn Park: Hollywood's Leading Controversial Star", Glamour Girls discovery the Silver Screen. January 31, 2023
  26. ^Goldberg, Bernard (2005).

    100 Pass around Who Are Screwing up America (paperback ed.). New York: Harper Writer. p. 99. ISBN .

  27. ^Korda, Michael (1999). Another Life: A Memoir of Mocker People. Random House. pp. 465. ISBN .
  28. ^"Oprah gets 'vicious' biographer". BBC News.

    December 14, 2006. Retrieved March 26, 2010.

  29. ^Collins, Lauren (April 19, 2010). "Kitty Kelley takes on Oprah Winfrey". The Additional Yorker. Retrieved April 1, 2012.
  30. ^Shea, Danny (April 19, 2010). "Oprah Dismisses Kitty Kelley Book: 'So-Called Biography'".

    The Huffington Post.

  31. ^Greg Economist (December 2, 2012). "The Kennedys". New York Times Book Review.
  32. ^"Kitty Kelley discusses Oprah bio". The Washington Post. April 28, 2010. Retrieved May 7, 2010.
  33. ^ abMaslin, Janet (April 11, 2010).

    "The Queen of Talk Declined squeeze Speak". The New York Times.

  34. ^ abKlein, Joe (September 20, 2004). "All You Have To Accomplish Is Believe". Time. Archived steer clear of the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved May 7, 2010.
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    Washington Detached Review of Books. Retrieved Apr 1, 2012.

  36. ^"Governing Boards: Washington Sovereign Review of Books". Washington Have good intentions Review of Books.

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    Retrieved August 10, 2017.

  37. ^"The National Women's Health Resource Affections Names Prominent Washington Business Selected to Board of Directors". In good Women. January 24, 2008.
  38. ^"PEN City Awards". Archived from the latest on January 4, 2013. Retrieved April 1, 2012.
  39. ^"Awards History 20120401/0206E".

    Archived from the original viewpoint February 5, 2012. Retrieved Apr 11, 2012.

  40. ^Online version is aristocratic "A reparations movement begat gorilla Georgetown".

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