Pagan Kennedy | |
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Born | Pamela Kennedy |
Occupation | Author, columnist |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater |
Wesleyan University Johns Hopkins University |
Partner | Kevin Bruyneel |
Website | |
pagankennedy |
Pagan Kennedy (born c. 1963) [1] is an American columnist and author, and pioneer of the 1990s zine movement. [2]
She has written ten books in a variety of genres, [3] was a regular contributor to Boston Globe, and has published articles in dozens of magazines and newspapers. [4] [5] In 2012–13, she was a The New York Times Magazine columnist.
Born Pamela Kennedy around 1963, she grew up in suburban Washington, D.C. She graduated from Wesleyan University in 1984, and later spent a year in the Masters of Fine Arts program at Johns Hopkins University.[ citation needed]
Kennedy's autobiographical zine Pagan's Head detailed her life during her twenties. [1]
In 2007, Kennedy wrote a biography called The First Man-Made Man about Michael Dillon, a British physician and author who in the mid-1940s became the first successful case of female-to-male sex change treatment that included a phalloplasty (the surgical construction of a penis). [6]
In July 2012, Kennedy was named design columnist for the The New York Times Magazine. [7] Her column, "Who Made That", detailed the origins of a wide variety of things, such as the cubicle [8] and the home pregnancy test. [9] Kennedy resigned from the column after signing a contract with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to write a book, Inventology.[ citation needed]
In 2020, Kennedy's investigation into the history of the first rape kit written for The New York Times, "The Rape Kit's Secret History", received national media attention. [10] [11] [12] It led to a revival of interest surrounding Marty Goddard's story, including the auction of an early rape kit at Sotheby's. [13]
Kennedy was a visiting professor of creative writing at Dartmouth College, [14] and taught fiction and nonfiction writing at Boston College, Johns Hopkins University, and many other conferences and residencies.
An ovarian cancer survivor, [15] Kennedy currently lives in Somerville, Massachusetts with her partner, Kevin Bruyneel. She previously lived with filmmaker Liz Canner, in a relationship she has described as similar to a Boston marriage. [16]
Kennedy was a 2010 Knight Science Journalism fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and she was named the 2010/2011 Creative Nonfiction grant winner by the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She has also been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in fiction, a Sonora Review fiction prize, and a Smithsonian Fellowship for science writing. [ citation needed]
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Pagan Kennedy | |
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Born | Pamela Kennedy |
Occupation | Author, columnist |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater |
Wesleyan University Johns Hopkins University |
Partner | Kevin Bruyneel |
Website | |
pagankennedy |
Pagan Kennedy (born c. 1963) [1] is an American columnist and author, and pioneer of the 1990s zine movement. [2]
She has written ten books in a variety of genres, [3] was a regular contributor to Boston Globe, and has published articles in dozens of magazines and newspapers. [4] [5] In 2012–13, she was a The New York Times Magazine columnist.
Born Pamela Kennedy around 1963, she grew up in suburban Washington, D.C. She graduated from Wesleyan University in 1984, and later spent a year in the Masters of Fine Arts program at Johns Hopkins University.[ citation needed]
Kennedy's autobiographical zine Pagan's Head detailed her life during her twenties. [1]
In 2007, Kennedy wrote a biography called The First Man-Made Man about Michael Dillon, a British physician and author who in the mid-1940s became the first successful case of female-to-male sex change treatment that included a phalloplasty (the surgical construction of a penis). [6]
In July 2012, Kennedy was named design columnist for the The New York Times Magazine. [7] Her column, "Who Made That", detailed the origins of a wide variety of things, such as the cubicle [8] and the home pregnancy test. [9] Kennedy resigned from the column after signing a contract with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to write a book, Inventology.[ citation needed]
In 2020, Kennedy's investigation into the history of the first rape kit written for The New York Times, "The Rape Kit's Secret History", received national media attention. [10] [11] [12] It led to a revival of interest surrounding Marty Goddard's story, including the auction of an early rape kit at Sotheby's. [13]
Kennedy was a visiting professor of creative writing at Dartmouth College, [14] and taught fiction and nonfiction writing at Boston College, Johns Hopkins University, and many other conferences and residencies.
An ovarian cancer survivor, [15] Kennedy currently lives in Somerville, Massachusetts with her partner, Kevin Bruyneel. She previously lived with filmmaker Liz Canner, in a relationship she has described as similar to a Boston marriage. [16]
Kennedy was a 2010 Knight Science Journalism fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and she was named the 2010/2011 Creative Nonfiction grant winner by the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She has also been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in fiction, a Sonora Review fiction prize, and a Smithsonian Fellowship for science writing. [ citation needed]
This section lacks
ISBNs for the books listed. (January 2014) |