Kitty Kelley

There's a kerfluffle bubbling in Washington. August feathers have been ruffled with publication of Yours in Truth by Jeff Himmelman, the authorized biographer of Benjamin C. Bradlee, former executive editor of the Washington Post. Himmelman, an acolyte of Bob Woodward, helped the renowned reporter research his book, Maestro....

It was only natural that I read Barbara Sinatra's memoir, Lady Blue Eyes, published recently. How could I not? After all, I had spent four years researching and writing a biography of her husband in 1986: His...

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).

Some friends urged me to buy life insurance and make them the beneficiaries; others recommended bodyguards and a bulletproof vest. The...

The difference between authorized and unauthorized biographies is the difference between riding in carriage or squatting in steerage. The authorized biographers--the ones hand-picked to write the sanitized version of a subject's life--sit up front with the swells while the unauthorized biographer who writes without access or approval gets elbowed to...

A group of elite whistleblowers met in Washington, D.C., recently without making a sound. There was no media coverage of these men and women whose exploits have commandeered front-page headlines, been heralded on 60 Minutes and Dateline, and, not incidentally, helped enrich the U.S. Treasury by more than $16 billion...

Jon Stewart appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman a few nights ago and Stewart asked Letterman why he was always feuding with Oprah. Letterman laughed but Stewart probed he who will not be probed until Letterman told him about the day he decided to have lunch...

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.

I had worked for McCarthy on his senate staff for four years before,...

The name of Oprah Winfrey, the world's first black female billionaire, was conspicuously absent from the Midas list of do-gooders released this week by Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, who have dragooned their billionaire brethren into promising to give away half their fortune. Mr. Buffett has

Oprah Winfrey has just announced that Oprah's Angel Network will no longer be accepting donations. She's also discontinuing the Network's grantmaking program. Oh, Oprah. Say it ain't so. But her quiet announcement on the website of Oprah's Angel Network makes it clear that her Angel giving has come...

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. While I found her to be a strong woman...