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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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 Dissertation Fellowship

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…

Thinkin’ in the Bardo

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,…

1974 All Over Again

Maureen Dowd refers to “Death and the All-American Boy”                           New York Times…

Kitty Kelley’s Endless Generosity

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…

Taking Manhattan

by Kitty Kelley “As New York goes, so goes the nation” is more than a Big Apple brag. It’s the bellwether of the country, highlighted…

Yoko

by Kitty Kelley Most biographers can only fantasize about unfettered access to their subjects — to know their thoughts and dreams and aspirations, to understand…

Fearless and Free

by Kitty Kelley Josephine Baker (1906-1975) found fame in France in the 1920s as the American expat who danced in “a mere belt of bananas.”…

Our Jackie

by Kitty Kelley Library shelves sag with Kennedy books — about the president, his wife, his children, his parents, his siblings, his administration, his policies,…

Kitty Kelley & Rep. John Lewis

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