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
secret biographies congress
I would love to do an unauthorized biography about Congress... It's like a secret society up there.
spirituality my-own values
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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I am what is known as a benched Catholic and disillusioned by the church doctrine. I believe in things the Catholic Church does not believe in: divorce being one, and a women's right to choose being another.
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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.
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A hero is someone we can admire without apology.
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The difference between authorized and unauthorized biographies is the difference between riding in carriage or squatting in steerage.
thinking long redemption
There's still time for redemption if I live long enough, don't you think?
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The rumors of Frank Sinatras 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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Most historians agree that Abraham Lincoln was the most important man to ever occupy the White House because he abolished slavery and kept the states united through a bloody civil war.
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John F. Kennedy brought style and charisma to the White House and a first family that captivated the country: a handsome, witty president, an elegant first lady, and two adorable young children.
father feelings identity
I'm not surprised, but I am disappointed that Katharine Carr Esters claims that she was 'tricked' into divulging her true feelings about Oprah and that she now denies that she revealed to me the identity of Oprah's biological father.
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I was raised Irish Catholic and went to Holy Names Academy, an all-girl's private Catholic school. I loved the nuns there and I love them to this day.