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	Encyclopedia: Kitty Kelley
		Kitty Kelley (born April 4, 1942) is an American investigative journalist and author of several best-selling biographies of celebrities and politicians--which have led to her international--and controversial--reputation as the first lady of the unauthorized biography genre.
		Kelley was widely attacked in the media for the book, with charges of partisanship and challenges to her credibility, yet as usual, no specific charges against her were substantiated and no retractions were necessary.
		Kelley is perhaps the only female journalist to have four of her books in a row debut at No. 1 on the Times list.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kitty-Kelley (1575 words)

	Kitty Kelley -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Kitty Kelley (born April 4, 1942) is a prominent (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American investigative (A writer for newspapers and magazines) journalist who has written a number of best-selling biographies of celebrities and politicians.
		In 1998, Kelley turned her attention to the (additional info and facts about British Royal Family) British Royal Family in The Royals, examining such issues as attempts by the Windsors to obscure their German ancestry as well as more personal matters such as the many scandals surrounding the members of the family.
		Kelley was widely attacked in the media for the book, with charges of partisanship and challenges to her credibility.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/k/ki/kitty_kelley.htm (477 words)

	Kitty Kelley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kitty Kelley (born April 4, 1942) is an American investigative journalist and author of several best-selling biographies of celebrities and politicians.
		He later withdrew his lawsuit amid much publicity and the book went on to become number one on the New York Times best seller list, and was a huge seller not only in the US but also in England, Canada and Australia.
		The book could not be published in England due to libel laws, but thanks to its publication within a month of Princess Diana's death, it too jumped to the top position of the New York Times best-seller list, becoming the fourth best-selling nonfiction title of the year, according to Publishers Weekly.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kitty_Kelley (875 words)

	ipedia.com: Kitty Kelley Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Kitty Kelley is an American author, journalist and biographer — famous for her tabloid -esque approach to biography writing, and her books often contain many embarrassing and sordid anecdotes about th...
		Kitty Kelley (born April 4, 1942) is an American author, journalist and biographer — famous for her tabloid-esque approach to biography writing, and her books often contain many embarrassing and sordid anecdotes about the people she profiles.
		Kitty Kelley's first insight into Reagan's character comes off bad: After the breakup of his marriage to Wyman and before he met Nancy, Reagan had an affair with starlet Jacqueline Park, later the mistress of Warner Bros. studio boss Jack Warner.
	www.ipedia.com /kitty_kelley.html (781 words)

	The Jawa Report: Who is Kitty Kelley? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Kelley once coined herself 'the Queen of sleeze' and if the subject matter of her books doesn't warn you of the type of reading material she supplies than this might: her book which 'researches' dirt on the House of Windsor has been banned in Brittain for it's libelous accusations.
		Kitty Kelley has a penchant for ascribing inflamatory quotes to famous people, often relying on scorned lovers or others who have a bone to pick with her biographical subjects.
		Kelley told Matt Lauer that Sharon had told her Neil was very unhappy that she had been talking to Kelley and even morbidly suggested if she didn't stop she'd find herself in a dark alley.
	mypetjawa.mu.nu /archives/044660.php (3052 words)

	Kitty Kelley - Colonoscopist to the stars. By Michael Crowley
		Whenever Kitty Kelley writes one of her juicy, gossipy, salacious, titillating, delightful, and factually suspect biographies, we hear about the thoroughness of her research.
		But Kelley's ostentatious display of reportorial overkill is clearly just a ritual effort to pre-empt the questions that inevitably arise about her accuracy.
		Kelley's keyboard turned Reagan into a cruel and vain shrew who lied about her age and family origins, hit her daughter, menaced other people's children, and was so cheap that she recycled unwanted gifts.
	www.slate.com /id/2106746 (1340 words)

	Sharon Bush Denies Kitty Kelley Account (washingtonpost.com)
		Sharon Bush is quoted in Kelley's forthcoming book about the Bush family as making one of the allegations, and Kelley's editor said in an interview Tuesday that she had provided "confirmation" for the information.
		He said the two women spoke when Bush, who was in financial difficulty during the divorce, asked Kelley to put her in touch with a speakers' bureau, though in the end Bush never made any speeches.
		"She did tell Kitty Kelley that she felt the Bush family was being hypocritical about the so-called family values issue" in light of the way she was treated in the divorce, Berg said.
	washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A6706-2004Sep8.html?... (685 words)

	Kitty Kelley Syndrome - CJR, July/Aug 91
		Reviewing Kelley's biography of Jackie Onassis twelve years ago in The Nation, Richard Gilman wrote that "almost nothing she claims to be quoting has the slightest ring of authenticity," then went on to provide examples.
		In the acknowledgments, Kelley thanks forty-five sources, but it is usually difficult, and sometimes impossible, to determine who told her what.
		Like Kitty Kelley, Heymann had written previous biographies that were suspect in some of their specifics.
	archives.cjr.org /year/91/4/kittykelley.asp (3761 words)

	AlterNet: MediaCulture: Kitty's Litter
		Kelley's book is – unintentionally I think – a surprisingly tender portrait of a small, loyal group of vicious undead fiends, persevering against all odds in a world of the callous, uncomprehending living.
		Kelley does what no other writer to date has really done for the Bushes: she actually makes you admire them for their remarkable ability to remain consistently cold, calculating, predatory and unscrupulous in generation after generation after generation.
		Kelley traces Bush's acceptance into the guard, where there was a waiting list 100,000 people long, back through the ranks of the Texas reserves to a phone call from Bush I. But for the most part, these hot-button angles are not documented sufficiently to really hurt Bush.
	www.alternet.org /mediaculture/19888 (2108 words)

	USATODAY.com - Birmingham freelancer sues Kitty Kelley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Kelley, known for unauthorized biographies of Frank Sinatra and Nancy Reagan, is author of The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty.
		Kelley, known for gossipy, unauthorized biographies of Frank Sinatra and Nancy Reagan, is the author of The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty, published by Doubleday, a Random House subsidiary, on Sept. 14.
		Kelley generated buzz by writing that George W. Bush used cocaine at Camp David while his father was president.
	yahoo.usatoday.com /life/people/2004-11-17-kelley-sued_x.htm?csp=1 (414 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| US elections 2004 \| Don't mess with the Bushes
		And Kelley writes that George W Bush is not the only one in the first family who enjoyed illegal substances.
		While Kelley is being savagely attacked as a tabloid sleaze queen, her book is more heavily researched and documented than Bush advocates allege.
		Kelley says she decided to put the story in her book after interviewing the two investigators Flynt had hired to track down the story.
	www.guardian.co.uk /uselections2004/salon/0,14779,1304379,00.html (2616 words)

	Kitty Kelley dishes on the Bush family - BOOKS - MSNBC.com
		Kelley has been accused frequently of smearing her subjects, most notoriously when she implied that Nancy Reagan had an affair with Sinatra.
		Kelley says she had e-mail correspondence with Noonan and the book includes a passage in which Noonan concludes that the first President Bush, in unfavorable contrast to Reagan, “lacked historical imagination.”
		Kelley acknowledges that the Bushes are hardly the only famous people whose private lives seem to contrast with their public image.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5993020 (893 words)

	HoustonChronicle.com - Kitty Kelley's bad magic
		Kelley's other sources are an unnamed Yale classmate, who supposedly told his tale to the writer Erica Jong; an unnamed Yale graduate student; "those who worked with George" on a political campaign in 1972; and retired 1st Lt. Robert A. Rogers, who served 11 years in the National Guard and has written about its procedures.
		Kelley assumes all pretensions of a bona fide biographer, providing 35 pages of notes at the end of her book.
		The reader is supposed to take Kelley's word for it, despite the fact that the narrative bristles with hostility and resentment toward a family born to privilege.
	www.chron.com /cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/ae/books/reviews/2812614 (2761 words)

	Kitty Kelley's new book
		On Tuesday, September 14, 2004, the day for the official start of sales for the item, we took a bus up to Westwood and went to our favorite mystery bookstore to see if they were offering the new book that was out of their area of expertise.
		Kelley seemed to present the Bush family’s association with the German banker Fritz Thyssen in a rather cursory and colorless manner.
		Kelley didn’t seem to dig in a relentless and comprehensive manner.
	www.justabovesunset.com /id377.html (976 words)

	Media View Kitty Kelley's Bush Book With Caution (washingtonpost.com)
		A call to Kelley's Washington home was returned by her publicist, Marina Ein, who said she was unavailable yesterday.
		Gethers said Kelley used more unnamed sources in the book than she generally does, but that this doesn't diminish its credibility.
		Kitty is a fearless reporter; even her detractors would acknowledge that.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A3665-2004Sep7.html (1181 words)

	Amazon.com: His Way : An Unauthorized Biography Of Frank Sinatra: Books: Kitty Kelley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Kelley does not completely neglect Sinatra's music, but precisely because he was already well known as a great singer, this book was a corrective to the longstanding hagiography surrounding him.
		But, my dear Public, it is Kitty who dreams the dream that she one day reach the status of being marketable on a plate or honored by her peers in such a way and with such esteem that eclipses Sinatra.
		Kelley includes great detail of his life and includes very interesting facts that were previously not known to the public.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553265156?v=glance (2225 words)

	Salon.com Books \| Don't mess with the Bushes
		In her new book, Kitty Kelley shows how the first family intimidates those who've tried to expose the clan's dark secrets of drugs, drinking, womanizing and nepotism.
		Bestselling author Kitty Kelley's withering portrait of the Bush dynasty, "The Family," is landing in bookstores on Tuesday -- more than 720,000 copies of it.
		One of Kelley's sources -- and the only one on the record -- was Sharon Bush, the deeply aggrieved ex-wife of W's younger brother Neil.
	www.salon.com /books/int/2004/09/14/kelley (358 words)

	New York Daily News - Home - Kitty's book? Mostly catty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Most of the tawdry tales in Kelley's book have appeared in print before, but in retelling them she adds more kindling to the controversy that erupted when the ex-wife of Dubya's brother, Neil, claimed Bush and another brother snorted coke at Camp David during their father's term as President.
		Kelley's source about the First Lady's alleged pot smoking is a Texas public relations man named Robert Nash who says, "She not only smoked dope, but she sold dope."
		Kelley also claims that the First Couple went to pot parties on the British Virgin Islands with Laura Bush's college roommate Jane Clark and her pal, Hall of Fame pitcher Sandy Koufax.
	www.nydailynews.com /front/story/231026p-198371c.html (509 words)

	Amazon.com: The Family : The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Kitty Kelley, author of exhaustive and highly unflattering biographies of Frank Sinatra, Jackie Onassis, and the British royal family, among others, has never received much cooperation from her subjects.
		Kelley's very thorough grasp of the history of the 60's and 70's and her insight into the Nixon years.
		Kelley's book, our country would not be in the dire straits we find ourselves today - bankrupt, reviled by the rest of the civilized world and environmentally degraded.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385503245?v=glance (1931 words)

	Sharon Bush denies Kitty Kelley account - washingtonpost.com Highlights - MSNBC.com
		When Kitty Kelley raised drug use at Camp David, I responded by saying something along the lines of, 'Who would say such a thing?'
		Kelley's reporting and believes that everything she attributes to Sharon Bush in her book is an accurate account of their discussions," said Associate Publisher Suzanne Herz.
		He also did not recall Kelley taking extensive notes, but said she had her pen and pad out at some point, perhaps when the women exchanged phone numbers.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/5946246 (704 words)

	Meow!
		His producers had booked Kitty for promotional appearances last week on three successive mornings, but instead of encouraging the author in a purring recitation of her new book's many charms, Matt sandbagged her.
		The face-to-face debunking required more nerve than skill--poking holes in a Kitty Kelley book isn't hard--but it did underscore the rude fact of Kitty's professional status: When respectable pressfolk deal with her, they prefer to use surgeon's gloves and a pair of long-nosed pliers.
		There was a brief window in Kitty Kelley's career when respectability hovered within her grasp.
	weeklystandard.com /Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/642rnyar.asp (493 words)

	Media View Kitty Kelley's Bush Book With Caution - Independent Media TV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It is the book that some Republicans have been worrying about for weeks, filled with lurid allegations by a celebrity biographer whose controversial reputation has only boosted her sales.
		Random House's Doubleday unit has ordered an initial printing of 750,000, and Kelley is scheduled to be interviewed by MSNBC's Chris Matthews and radio host Don Imus, among others.
		Kelley has written extensively researched, gossip-filled books on the British royal family -- which are packed with disputed details about their sexual practices -- Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
	www.independent-media.tv /item.cfm?fmedia_id=8878&fcategory_desc=Under (1279 words)

	Authors: Kitty Kelley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		itty Kelley is an internationally acclaimed writer whose last book, Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography, sold faster than any biography in publishing history.
		Kelley, who has been honored by her peers, received the Outstanding Authors Award from the American Society of Journalists and Independent Writers for "her outstanding service to writers and the writing profession." She was presented with the Medal of Merit from the Lotus Club of New York City.
		In 1993 Brandeis University National Women's Committee established a major book collection in her honor.
	www.twbookmark.com /authors/57/552 (121 words)

	NewsMax.com: Inside Cover Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Newsweek magazine has rejected an offer to excerpt Kitty Kelley's Bush family expose, "The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty," because a key allegation in the book couldn't be nailed down.
		Fineman suggested that Kelley's sourcing for the book's central allegation - a claim that George W. Bush had used cocaine at Camp David during the 1980s - was suspicious on its face.
		Kelley has a history of reporting gossip and innuendo — even stories without substantiation from more than one witness.
	www.newsmax.com /archives/ic/2004/9/7/180038.shtml (474 words)

	New York Daily News - Daily Dish & Gossip - Rush & Molloy: More blow-by-blow over W coke tale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The one time I met in person with Kitty Kelley, she mentioned drug use at Camp David.
		Kelley's reporting, and believes that everything she attributes to Sharon Bush in her book is an accurate account of their discussions."
		Kelley had a subsequent telephone conversation with Sharon Bush which lasted approximately 1-1/2 hours.
	www.nydailynews.com /news/gossip/story/230275p-197775c.html (1311 words)

	Captain's Quarters
		Kitty Kelley's only source for her blockbuster allegation of drug use by George W. Bush at Camp David during his father's administration strenuously denied telling Kelley any such thing, according to Howard Kurtz at the Washington Post.
		Further, Sharon Bush insists that she understood her interview with Kelley to be off the record, and regrets ever speaking with her -- not an unusual reaction to a Kitty Kelley encounter.
		Author Kitty Kelley writes in her upcoming book, The Family: The Real Story of The Bush Dynasty, that [President Bush used cocaine at Camp David].
	www.captainsquartersblog.com /mt/archives/002463.php (1344 words)

	Captain's Quarters
		Muckraking author Kitty Kelley, whose hack jobs on the British royal family, Elvis, and Sinatra have been widely panned, turns her guns loose on her next conservative target, George Bush.
		It would be one thing if Kitty had sworn affidavits and multiple sources for each of her claims but alas, most of her sources are anonymous.
		Let's not forget that this is the same Kitty Kelley who accused Nancy Reagan of boinking Frank Sinatra in the Governor's Mansion.
	www.captainsquartersblog.com /mt/archives/002456.php (3235 words)

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