Dictionary of American Religious Biography Book

A Kitty Kelly style book on the life of Kitty Kelly. What goes around, comes around. It couldn't happen to a nicer person...

The author actually is a better writer than Kitty Kelly, but he purposely copies her writing style:
- very slanted & biased writing
- full of slander & innuendos
- contradictory negative stories, hard to discern actual details but left with a general icky feeling
- not a straight forward biography, jumps between negative stories, goes back & forth in time
- spiteful, vague accusations and suggestive situations presented
- other authors referenced heavily (not original research)
- other people in the subject's lives tarnished to establish the subject's guilt by association
- sloppy writing, occasional grammar errors

Things I learned about Kitty Kelly:
- She is a member of the Junior League. :-0
- On page 60, Kitty is quoted as saying "There is sex that you do for your career and sex that you do for yourself." :-0 She basically throws herself sexually at people in power that might be able to help her career. She also uses her sexuality to get "in" with men she wants to interview or otherwise illicit information from.
- On page 112, Kitty is quoted as saying "People who live in the public eye have no expectation of privacy." Hmm. I like my famous people to keep their private lives private, so that I can still look up to them.
- She grew up in a wealthy family as the oldest of 7 children.

I'm glad I read this book. I had never heard of the author before, but I liked his old school record system. Lots of things in his writing felt quaint (out dated) and old school. Which I didn't mind. He uses the term "made it" repeatedly for sex. He dissects the first few Kitty Kelly books and points out numerous errors. Having read some Kitty Kelly books, this provides a lot of balance and context. When you point a finger at someone, four are pointing back at you!

It was a relatively fast and scandalous read.