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.
The Kitty Kelley Dissertation Fellowship in Biography will provide $25,000 to a doctoral student who is writing a dissertation in English focused on the life…
by Kitty Kelley George Saunders did not want his tombstone to read, “Here lies a guy who never did what he wanted to do.” So,…
Maureen Dowd refers to “Death and the All-American Boy” New York Times…
by Holly Smith Bestselling biographer and all-around excellent literary citizen Kitty Kelley has done it again. Just a few months after her historic donation to…
by Kitty Kelley South Carolina is the state that gave rise to the Civil War. Three days after Abraham Lincoln was elected president, its legislature…
by Kitty Kelley Any book carrying the name of David McCullough usually weighs three pounds less than a horse. His first biography, Truman, ran to…
by Kitty Kelley Imagine Nancy Drew with a Phi Beta Kappa key and you’ll glimpse the phenomenon of Megan Marshall, who many cite as the…
by Kitty Kelley By the time James Baldwin was 5 years old and growing up in Harlem, he’d read all the way through the only…
