Kitty Kelley
Kitty Kelley
Kitty Kelleyis an American journalist and author of several best-selling unauthorized biographies of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Reagan, the British Royal Family, the Bush family, and Oprah Winfrey...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 April 1942
CountryUnited States of America
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I can't say I wasn't warned. Alarms started clanging the day I signed to write 'His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra' (Bantam Books, 1986).
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When Liz ran her column, Newsweek had to rip up their issue and run it sooner than they wanted, and the same with The Washington Post.
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There's a curiosity factor, but not a fascination like there used to be.
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When Caroline Kennedy endorsed Barack Obama in 2008 as her father's rightful heir, she laid upon him the mantle of Camelot and the enduring mystique of John F. Kennedy, who, according to polls, continues to be America's most beloved president.
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He ordered killings as easily as he ordered linguine.
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Shortly after Senator Eugene J. McCarthy died in 2005 the age of 89, I became an honorary member of the committee starting a fellowship in McCarthy's name at his alma mater, Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota.
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The rumors of Frank Sinatra's violence and his ties to organized crime were such that journalists joked in print about me ending up in concrete boots and sleeping with the fishes if I proceeded to write his biography.
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Studies have been done showing that there really are gender differences, that women do bring more congeniality and compromise to the table.
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Presidents often disappoint, but first ladies rarely do.
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I would love to do an unauthorized biography about Congress... It's like a secret society up there.
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I tend to place my own value in spirituality rather than religiosity.
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I have believed in the biographies I have written. I truly can tell you that they have influenced our society politically, culturally, socially.
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My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.
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It would be morally reprehensible not to tell the truth... Everything I have written has stood the test of time.