Welcome to the official website of Kitty Kelley, America's bestselling investigative biographer. Her in-depth and revealing examinations of high profile subjects include Oprah, the Bush family, the British Monarchy, Nancy Reagan, Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Her most recent books are Let Freedom Ring: Stanley Tretick's Iconic Images of the March on Washington and Capturing Camelot: Stanley Tretick's Iconic Images of the Kennedys.

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Martin's Dream Day


Let Freedom Ring: Stanley Tretick’s Iconic Images of the March on Washington.



Capturing Camelot: Stanley Tretick's Iconic Images of The Kennedys.

Kitty Kelley Wins 2023 BIO Award

Kitty Kelley has won the 14th BIO Award, bestowed annually by the Biographers International Organization to a distinguished colleague who has made major contributions to the…

David Bruce Smith’s Grateful American Book Award Honors Michelle Coles

by Kitty Kelley No one hosts a more spectacular dinner party for a better cause than David Bruce Smith. His heavy parchment invitations of exquisite…

A Trail of Tears and Triumph

by Kitty Kelley “April is the cruelest month,” wrote the poet T.S. Eliot, and for followers of Martin Luther King Jr., April 4, 1968, was…

Queen of the Unauthorized Biography Spills Her Own Secrets

By Seth Abramovitch There was, not that long ago, a name whose mere invocation could strike terror in the hearts of the most powerful figures…

King: A Life

by Kitty Kelley They said one to another Behold here cometh the Dreamer Let us slay him And we shall see what will become of…

Master Slave Husband Wife

by Kitty Kelley The morning after Martin Luther King Day 2023 marked the release of Ilyon Woo’s extraordinary Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey…

Shine

by Kitty Kelley Tis the season, and January is the time for New Year’s resolutions. So, in that spirit, Larry Thompson, a Hollywood magnate, offers…

Confessions

by Kitty Kelley The writing life is full of potholes — long days and solitary nights followed by rewrites, rejections, and, for most, scant rewards.…

Kitty Kelley & Rep. John Lewis

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