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.
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…
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…
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…
by Judith Beerman Originally published by The Georgetown Dish December 13, 2021 Internationally acclaimed writer and long-time Georgetown resident, Kitty Kelley is renowned for her…
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…
by Kitty Kelley The writing life is full of potholes — long days and solitary nights followed by rewrites, rejections, and, for most, scant rewards.…
by Kitty Kelley Shirley Hazzard’s first short-story submission was plucked from a slush pile of 30,000 unsolicited manuscripts at the New Yorker by fiction editor…
by Kitty Kelley Remember that iconic scene in “The Mary Tyler Moore Show”? Mary’s editor, Lou Grant, played by Ed Asner, says, “You know, Mary.…
