Patricia Kennealy
| Patricia Kennealy-Morrison | |
|---|---|
| Born |
March 4, 1946 Brooklyn, New York, United States |
| Residence | United States |
| Occupation | Journalist, writer |
Patricia Kennealy-Morrison (born Patricia Kennely; March 4, 1946) is an American author and journalist. Her published works include rock criticism, a memoir, and two series of science fiction/fantasy and murder mystery novels. Her books are evenly divided between the series The Keltiad and The Rock&Roll Murders: The Rennie Stride Mysteries.
As first a writer and then the editor-in-chief of Jazz & Pop magazine in the late 1960s, she was one of the first women rock critics. Kennealy-Morrison has worked as an advertising copywriter, receiving two Clio nominations. She claims to be a Dame of the Ordo Supremus Militaris Templi Hierosolymitani, a High Priestess in a Celtic Pagan tradition and a member of Mensa.
Kennealy-Morrison was born in Brooklyn, New York, and reared on Long Island in the hamlet of North Babylon.
She attended St. Bonaventure University for two years, majoring in Journalism. She later transferred to Harpur College (now Binghamton University) where she graduated with a B.A. in English Literature in 1967. She has also studied at NYU, Parsons School of Design, and Christ Church, University of Oxford.
After her college graduation at age 21, she then moved to New York City, where she worked first as a lexicographer for Macmillan Publishing, then as an editorial assistant and, from 1968 to 1971, editor-in-chief of Jazz & Pop magazine. She was one of the first female rock critics, leaving the field in 1972.
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