William melvin kelley biography of nancy
When William M. Kelley was born on 13 March 1820, in Knox, Tennessee, United States, his father, Nathan Kelly, was 33 and his mother, Nancy Lones, was 20. He married Sarah "Sallie" Sharp on 9 January 1840, in Grainger, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 31 July 1904, in Union, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Kelly Cemetery, Luttrell, Union, Tennessee, United States.
Kitty Kelley
Author of unauthorized biographies
For the actress, see Kitty Kelly.
Kitty Kelley | |
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Kelley at Borders Books and Music in Chicago, April 2010 | |
| Born | Catherine Kelley (1942-04-04) April 4, 1942 (age 82) Spokane, Washington, U.S. |
| Occupation | Journalist, writer |
| Notable works | The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty (2004) Oprah: A Biography (2010) |
| Notable awards | PEN Oakland Censorship Award |
| Spouse | Michael Edgley (m. 1976; div. 1989)John Zucker (m. 1992; died 2011) |
Katherine Kelley (born April 4, 1942) is an American journalist and author of best-selling unauthorized biographies of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Reagan, the British royal family, the Bush family, and Oprah Winfrey.
For the Sinatra biography, Kelley won praise for the quality of her research and willingness to risk a lawsuit, but critics have not rated her other works as highly. She has been described as a "professional sensationalist" and the "consummate gossip monger."
Early life
Catherine Kelley was raised in Spokane, Washington, the eldest of seven children of Adele (née Martin) and William Vincent Kelley, a lawyer who served as president of the city's bar association. She had "an unhappy home life with an alcoholic mother" who "wasn’t just a closet drunk. She was often a nasty public drunk." She helped take care of her five sisters, Mary Cary, Ellen, Margaret, Adele Monica and Madeleine Sophie, as well as her brother, John. The family vacationed in Europe and spent summers at their two lakeside cottages in western Idaho. Kelley graduated from St. Augustine's Elementary School and then attended the private prep school Holy Names Academy.
According to the biography Poison P A quick glance at the epigraph (actually one of several) to William Melvin Kelley’s third novel, dem, is a good indication of what lies in store for the unsuspecting reader. Written in the International Phonetic Alphabet, the single sentence ‘næʊ, lǝmi tǝljǝ hæʊ dǝm foks lıv . . .’ may at first look utterly perplexing, but does in fact prove easier to decipher than one might think: ‘Now, lemme tell ya how dem folks live . . .’ It is a fitting introduction to a novel that reads in many ways like the folk tale that could follow such a sentence, a novel that deals with universal themes through a subversive lens, and manages to be both familiar and unsettling at the same time. First published in 1967, after which it faded into obscurity along with its author – only recently, following his death in 2017, has there been a resurgence of interest in Kelley, who in his lifetime drew comparisons to Faulkner and Joyce and has since been hailed as one of Black America’s literary heroes – dem is a dazzling satire on race relations that takes as its focal point the bumbling figure of Mitchell Pierce. White, middle class and married, with a job at an advertising agency that taxes his limited creativity, Mitchell begins the book as a distinctly average figure who, through a series of absurd accidents, finds his life slipping entirely out of control. Following an injury during a beach holiday with his wife Tam (who is as cold to as she is looked down on by her husband), Mitchell spends several weeks confined to the house and, in his loneliness, falls in love with a soap opera character. As his obsession with the beautiful Nancy begins to bleed into everyday life, he tries – and fails – to betray his wife at roughly the same time as she is in hospital giving birth to their second and third children, only one of whom will prove to be Mitchell’s. Tam’s twins, one Black and one white, are the products of superfecu When William M Kelley was born on 1 October 1835, in South Carolina, United States, his father, James Kelly, was 21 and his mother, Emily Emaline Watkins, was 17. He married Minerva Rebecca Josephine Autry on 25 October 1866, in Gordon, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Resaca, Gordon, Georgia, United States in 1870 and Waleska, Cherokee, Georgia, United States in 1900. He registered for military service in 1863. He died on 13 November 1909, in Rome, Floyd, Georgia, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Myrtle Hill Cemetery, Rome, Floyd, Georgia, United States.dem by William Melvin Kelley
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