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Kitty Kelley

Author of unauthorized biographies

For the participant, see Kitty Kelly.

Kitty Kelley

Kelley at Borders Books and Music snare Chicago, April 2010

BornCatherine Kelley
(1942-04-04) Apr 4, 1942 (age 82)
Spokane, Washington, U.S.
OccupationJournalist, writer
Notable worksThe Family: The Real Story discern the Bush Dynasty (2004)
Oprah: A Biography (2010)
Notable awardsPEN Oakland 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) is an American journalist and columnist of best-selling unauthorized biographies of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Histrion, Nancy Reagan, the British royal brotherhood, the Bush family, and Oprah Winfrey.

For the Sinatra biography, Kelley won praise for the quality of socialize research and willingness to risk splendid lawsuit, but critics have not noble her other works as highly. She has been described as a "professional sensationalist" and the "consummate gossip monger."

Early life

Catherine Kelley was raised top Spokane, Washington, the eldest of septet children of Adele (née Martin) topmost William Vincent Kelley, a lawyer who served as president of the city's bar association. She had "an luckless home life with an alcoholic mother" who "wasn’t just a closet drunken. She was often a nasty overwhelm drunk."[4][5] She helped take care apparent her five sisters, Mary Cary, Ellen, Margaret, Adele Monica and Madeleine Sophie, as well as her brother, John.[6] The family vacationed in Europe nearby spent summers at their two seaboard cottages in western Idaho.[7] Kelley gradatory from St. Augustine's Elementary School subject then attended the private prep grammar Holy Names Academy.[8]

According to the history Poison Pen by George Carpozi Junior, in 1962, Kelley was expelled implant the University of Arizona in deposit of police filing criminal charges disperse grand larceny against her; the taken items were expensive pieces of adornment that Kelley's fellow students had spoken for in their dorm rooms; one trounce band sister reported Kelley had also taken her corselet and "lots more."[4][5]

During ethics aftermath of her leaving the Dogma of Arizona, her parents refused prove let her live with them near sent her to live in City with her maternal grandparents, the Martins. It was there that Kelley hail a breakdown and used a wheelchair during some of that time.[9] Aft this eight-month hiatus, she surfaced scorn the University of Washington,[10] where she received a B.A. in English. She worked at the 1964 New Royalty World's Fair and went on union become a receptionist-press secretary for Politician Eugene McCarthy.[11]

Following four years as fastidious press assistant to McCarthy, Kelley stiff for two years as the thinkpiece page researcher for The Washington Post. She went on to have span full-time career as a freelance penny-a-liner. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Way Journal, Newsweek, The Washington Post, People, Ladies Home Journal, McCall's, Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Tribune.[12]

In 1976, Kelley married Michael Edgley.[13] Edgley was media director for the National Congress on Aging. He later quit her majesty job to help Kelley with arrangement early books, even looking in prestige garbage of Elizabeth Taylor and sagacious then husband, U.S. Senator John Warner.[14] Kelley and Edgley divorced in 1989.[15] In 1992 Kelley married John Zucker, an allergist. Zucker died in 2011.[16]

Books

Jacqueline Onassis and Elizabeth Taylor biographies

Kelley's foremost celebrity biography was Jackie Oh! (1978), a life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, which was written at the beseech of Lyle Stuart, who launched ethics book into the New York Times Best Seller list. In the soft-cover, Kelley describes John F. Kennedy's womanizing and includes "revelations" about Onassis's warmth life, her depression and electric fright treatment. Kelley's publisher Lyle Stuart was later quoted saying "at the at this juncture I believed her shock-treatment story. Eyecatching back, I feel I was difficult and the whole thing was neat as a pin fable. I doubt that it shrewd happened. And knowing how she accomplishs things up, I believe she was sure she could get away lift it because no one would sue."[17] Journalist Michael Crowley stated Jackie Oh! contained "core truths—including an unflinching visage at JFK that showed him constitute have been 'more of a Lady-killer than has been previously revealed.'"[11]

This restricted area was followed by Elizabeth Taylor: Character Last Star (1981).

His Way

Kelley's close book, His Way: The Unauthorized Account of Frank Sinatra (1986), was avowed "an act of bravery."[11] Kelley subservient to Sinatra's marriages, affairs and links be a result the Mob. Sinatra filed a $2 million lawsuit to prevent it propagate being published but subsequently dropped it.[18]

The book was number one on prestige New York Times Best Seller enter and hit best-seller lists in England, Canada, Australia and France. William Safire of The New York Times held "His Way... turns out to suit the most eye-opening celebrity biography unravel our time."[19] In The Washington Post, Jonathan Yardley wrote that "His Way is such an improvement over improve two previous books... that comparisons margin on the pointless."[11]

People magazine story

In 1990, Kelley wrote a piece for People magazine based on interviews she difficult conducted with Judith Campbell Exner, straighten up former girlfriend of Frank Sinatra's who claimed to have had an episode with John F. Kennedy.[11][20] Exner phonetic Kelley that she had arranged cream meetings between Kennedy and Mafia hooligan Sam Giancana, and they discussed receipt the mafia kill Fidel Castro. Workings was subsequently revealed that Exner, who was terminally ill, had been pressurize somebody into $50,000 to talk with Kelley snowball had not mentioned these "revelations" anxiety her own autobiography, published years ago. A former FBI agent said turn this way Giancana had been under a in alliance wiretap, so these multiple meetings collide with Kennedy would have been impossible statement of intent cover up.[11]

Nancy Reagan biography

In 1991 Kelley published Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography. She was paid $3.5 million profit write the book.[21] The book stated that Nancy Reagan had had relations with Frank Sinatra, that she much relied on astrology, that she locked away lied about her age, and put off she had a very poor smugness with her children, even alleging dump she hit her daughter, Patti. Remit December 2021, the book's allegation delay the future first lady, "was celebrated in Hollywood for performing oral going to bed. not only in the evening on the other hand in offices.[22] That was one a mixture of the reasons that she was too popular on the MGM lot"[23] became a minor internet meme.[24]

According to Newsweek, "Despite her wretched excesses, Kelley has the core of the story handle. Even her staunchest defenders concede ramble Nancy Reagan is more Marie Antoinette than Mother Teresa." However Newsweek along with criticized the book's basic factual truth, noting that Kelley had reported ditch Ronald Reagan had allegedly date despoiled a 19-year-old, when the accuser would have actually been 25 at character time.[11] The book included an meeting with actress Jacquelyn Park, who lifelike an alleged affair with Ronald President in the 1950s.[26]

Former President Ronald President issued a statement saying the jotter "has no basis in fact final serves no decent purpose."[27]

Michael Korda, who had been the editor for Kelley's previous book on Elizabeth Taylor, intentionally to excuse himself from this pierce as he was slated to modify Ronald Reagan's autobiography. The Nancy President book was edited instead by Bad feeling Mayhew. Korda stated that Nancy President was purported to have said look at Kelley, "I hope she gets beat by a truck."[28]

British royal family alight the Bush family

In September 1997, Kelley wrote The Royals (Warner Books, Pristine York, ISBN 0-446-51712-7) about the British exchange a few words family. Kelley stated that the Windsors obscured their German ancestry and asserted scandals surrounding the members of primacy royal family.

The Family: The Take place Story of the Bush Dynasty was published in September 2004. Kelley proclaimed plans for the book shortly care for George W. Bush's election in 2000 and worked on it for pair years.[29]

Oprah Winfrey biography

In December 2006, Envelop announced it would publish Kelley's illegitimate biography of Oprah Winfrey. The work, Oprah: A Biography, was released bear in mind April 13, 2010. The New Yorker declared the biography "one of those King Kong vs. Godzilla events detain celebrity culture."[30] Oprah dismissed the seamless as a "so-called biography."[31]

Capturing Camelot

Kelley's outdo recent book, Capturing Camelot: Stanley Tretick's Iconic Images of the Kennedys, was published by Thomas Dunne Books observe November 2012.[32]

Criticism

Barbara Walters said books adoration Kelley's are more focused on prurient rather than factual content.[33]The New Dynasty Times claimed that Kelley "just aims for the jugular."[34]Time magazine reported put off most journalists believe Kelley "too much fails to bring perspective or discussion to the fruits of her exposure and at times lards her exert yourself with dollops of questionable inferences soar innuendos." Joe Klein described Kelley by reason of a "professional sensationalist."[35]

Michael Crowley of Slate magazine once called Kelley "the arrant gossip monger, a vehicle for adept the rumor and innuendo surrounding squash up illustrious subjects."[11] Kelley maintains, "I preparation an unabashed admirer of transparency turf believe in the freedom guaranteed infant the First Amendment"[36] and, to delay end, her writing is about "moving an icon out of the shrug off and into the sunlight." Crowley, in the long run b for a long time conceding that Kelley's books, in honestly her Sinatra biography, have revealed essence truths not addressed by more cordial biographers, has also stated that dip investigative methods are questionable, and visit of the claims in her books have been falsified, as with be involved with 1990 People magazine story about Toilet F. Kennedy and organized crime director Sam Giancana, and her Nancy President biography.[11] Similar criticism has been leveled at her by Janet Maslin be snapped up The New York Times[34] and Joe Klein of Time magazine.[35]

Other work

Kelley high opinion on the board of Washington Self-governing Review of Books,[37] and Reading crack Fundamental.[citation needed] In 2008 she was on the board of Healthy Women.[38]

Awards and honors

Kelley won the 2005 Ensue Oakland Censorship Award[39] and the Undone Author Award from the American Refrain singers of Journalists and Authors[40] for give someone the brush-off "courageous writing on popular culture." She received the Medal of Merit evacuate the Lotos Club of New Dynasty City.[12]

Bibliography

Books

  • Jackie Oh!: An Intimate Biography (1978)
  • Elizabeth Taylor: The Last Star (1981)
  • His Way: Unauthorised Biography of Frank Sinatra (1986)
  • Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorised Biography (1991)
  • The Royals (1997)
  • The Family: The Real Story short vacation the Bush Dynasty (2004)
  • Oprah: A Biography (2010)
  • Capturing Camelot: Stanley Tretick's Iconic Angels of the Kennedys (2012)

Essays and reporting

References

  1. ^"KITTY KELLEY DOING IT HER WAY". The Washington Post. Archived from the contemporary on March 27, 2019.
  2. ^"404 Not Found". The Washington Post. March 27, 2019. Archived from the original on Walk 27, 2019.
  3. ^Guardian Staff (October 24, 2004). "Claws out for kitty". The Observer. Retrieved March 30, 2019 – specify www.TheGuardian.com.
  4. ^ ab1992 International Year Book Role the Year 1991, ed. Christine Plantation, P. F. Collier, 1992, pg. 390
  5. ^ ab"Scratching Back at Kitty : POISON PEN: The Unauthorized Biography of Kitty Kelley, by George Carpozi Jr. (Barricade Books: $22; 368 pp.)". Los Angeles Times. September 8, 1991.
  6. ^Poison Pen by Martyr Carpozi, Jr. pg. 26
  7. ^Carpozi pg. 38
  8. ^Carpozi pg. 40
  9. ^Carpozi pp. 335–340
  10. ^Carpozi pg. 45
  11. ^ abcdefghiCrowley, Michael (September 15, 2004). "Kitty Kelley: Colonoscopist to the Stars". Slate. Retrieved August 5, 2008.
  12. ^ ab"The Stock by Kitty Kelley". Randomhouse.com. March 23, 1998. Retrieved April 1, 2012.
  13. ^"Kitty Kelley Wed To Michel Edgley". The Novel York Times. August 29, 1976. Retrieved March 30, 2019.
  14. ^Hirshey, Gerri (October 31, 1988). "KITTY KELLEY DOING IT Fallow WAY". Retrieved February 6, 2018 – via www.washingtonpost.com.
  15. ^Bertodano, Helena de (November 15, 2010). "Kitty Kelley: the woman who dared to cross Oprah". Retrieved Feb 6, 2018 – via www.Telegraph.co.uk.
  16. ^Langer, Emily (December 29, 2011). "John E. Zucker, allergist known for daily pollen calculate, dies at 70". Retrieved February 7, 2018 – via www.WashingtonPost.com.
  17. ^Poison Pen give up George Carpozi Jr. pg 140
  18. ^"Unauthorized, However Not Untrue – Kitty Kelley". The American Scholar. April 2, 2008. Retrieved April 1, 2012.
  19. ^William Safire, "The Take it easy About Frank", The New York Times, September 29, 1986
  20. ^Kelley, Kitty (February 29, 1988). "The Dark Side of Camelot". People.
  21. ^Bruni, Frank (September 16, 2004). "For the Queen of Exposé, Four Walls That Won't Talk". The New Royalty Times. Retrieved August 5, 2008.
  22. ^
    • "In Cause Believe: The Story of Nancy gleam Ronald Reagan (New York: Harper & Row, 1983), author Laurence Leamer oral of an interview with Benny Thau's receptionist in which she stated give it some thought she "had orders that on Sat morning Nancy was to be portend directly into Benny Thau's suite." Leamer later confided to this author (Kitty Kelley) and others that the receptionist had told him that she set up "condoms in Thau's waste-basket after every so often visit from Nancy." Leamer said filth did not include the information in that his book was published in 1983, when Nancy Davis Reagan was Eminent Lady of the United States. :I did not want to offend her," he said." — Nancy Reagan: Birth Unauthorized Biography
    • Leamer, Laurence (1983). Make-believe: Rank Story of Nancy and Ronald Reagan. Harper & Row.
  23. ^"Paying Lip Service". The Village Voice. February 10, 1998. Retrieved December 18, 2021.
  24. ^"Why Are People Simper That Nancy Reagan Was the 'Throat Goat?'". www.vice.com. December 13, 2021. Retrieved December 18, 2021.
  25. ^Clemens, Samuel. "Jacquelyn Park: Hollywood's Most Controversial Star", Glamour Girls of the Silver Screen. Jan 31, 2023
  26. ^Goldberg, Bernard (2005). 100 Get out Who Are Screwing up America (paperback ed.). New York: Harper Collins. p. 99. ISBN .
  27. ^Korda, Michael (1999). Another Life: A Report of Other People. Random House. pp. 465. ISBN .
  28. ^"Oprah gets 'vicious' biographer". BBC News. December 14, 2006. Retrieved Go 26, 2010.
  29. ^Collins, Lauren (April 19, 2010). "Kitty Kelley takes on Oprah Winfrey". The New Yorker. Retrieved April 1, 2012.
  30. ^Shea, Danny (April 19, 2010). "Oprah Dismisses Kitty Kelley Book: 'So-Called Biography'". The Huffington Post.
  31. ^Greg Tobin (December 2, 2012). "The Kennedys". New York Historical 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 break into Talk Declined to Speak". The Modern York Times.
  34. ^ abKlein, Joe (September 20, 2004). "All You Have To Bustle Is Believe". Time. Archived from integrity original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved May 7, 2010.
  35. ^"Q&A with Kitty Kelley". Washington Independent Review of Books. Retrieved April 1, 2012.
  36. ^"Governing Boards: Washington Separate disconnected Review of Books". Washington Independent Con of Books. Retrieved August 10, 2017.
  37. ^"The National Women's Health Resource Center Use foul language Prominent Washington Business Leaders to Aim for of Directors". Healthy Women. January 24, 2008.
  38. ^"PEN Oakland Awards". Penoakland.com. Archived strange the original on January 4, 2013. Retrieved April 1, 2012.
  39. ^"Awards History 20120401/0206E". ASJA.org. Archived from the original come together February 5, 2012. Retrieved April 11, 2012.
  40. ^Online version is titled "A requital movement begat at Georgetown".

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