Kitty Kelley

Featured Works

View all»

Previous Pause Next

PUBLISHED: Apr.13.2010

Oprah: A Biography

For the past twenty-five years, no one has been better at revealing secrets than Oprah Winfrey. On what is arguably the most influential show in television history, she has gotten her guests-often the biggest celebrities in the world-to bare their love lives, explore their painful pasts, admit their transgressions, reveal their pleasures, and explore their demons. In turn,...

Buy now

Write a review

Learn more »

PUBLISHED: Sep.14.2004

The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty

They have wielded enormous financial power and dominated world politics for more than half a century. They have been appointed to positions of great power and have been elected as governors, congressmen, senators and presidents. They have shaped our past and, with our country at war under the leadership of their number one son, they are, more critically than ever, shaping our...

Buy now

Write a review

Learn more »

PUBLISHED: May.15.1991

Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography

A shocking portrait of the 1980s, America, and the woman whose position helped shape the values and policies of the Reagan administration. Through over 1,000 interviews collected during four years of exhaustive research and reporting, Kelley reveals Nancy Reagan as a superb public performer, a vain, materialistic social climber, a bitter foe and formidable strategist--an American...

Buy now

Write a review

Learn more »

PUBLISHED: Sep.17.1997

The Royals

They are the most chronicled family on the face of the globe. Their every move attracts headlines. Scores of books have tried and failed to penetrate the royal facade. Now Kitty Kelley has gone behind palace walls to provide the first three-dimensional, comprehensive, and evenhanded portrait of the men and women who make up the British Royal family. Kelley spent more than four...

Buy now

Write a review

Learn more »

PUBLISHED: Sep.01.1986

His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra

This is the book Frank Sinatra failed to stop, the unauthorized biography of one of the most elusive public figures of our time. Celebrated journalist Kitty Kelley spent three years researching government documents (Mafia-related material, wiretaps and secret testimony) and interviewing more than 800 people in Sinatra's life (family, colleagues, law-enforcement officers, personal...

Add to Bag

Write a review

Learn more »

PUBLISHED: Sep.01.1981

Elizabeth Taylor: The Last Star

Buy now

Write a review

Learn more »

PUBLISHED: Sep.01.1978

Jackie Oh!

She was the definition of White House style for too brief a time. And as a private citizen, we couldn't seem to get enough of her. Here is the inside, outside, upside and downside of our own American princess. Tragic, heroic, private: the image of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis remains the image of an American icon that will never lose its ability to charm and fascinate.

Buy now

Write a review

Learn more »

Kitty's Latest Blogs

View all»

Jan.12.2011 - 4:39 pm

Unauthorized, But Not Untrue

Shortly after my book Oprah: A Biography was published last April, one of Oprah Winfrey's open-minded fans wrote to her website saying she wanted to read the book. Oprah's...

Published Reviews

View all»

Apr.05.2010

Published by Los Angeles Times

"...Winfrey's refusal to be interviewed seems to have inspired, rather than deterred, Kelley. She interviewed 850 sources for Oprah, including major 'gets,' such as Winfrey's...

Audio & Video

View all»

Video: One on One — Kitty Kelley Interview on al Jazeera

About Kitty

Kitty Kelley is an internationally acclaimed writer whose last four books have been number one on the New York Times best seller list: The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty (2004) and The Royals (1997) debuted at number one. The latter, according...

Read full bio »