Pagan Kennedy

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Pagan Kennedy (born July 9, 1962 in Maryland ) is an American author .

Life

Pagan Kennedy studied American Studies at Wesleyan University until 1984 and at Johns Hopkins University with John Barth until 1988 . After graduating, she started working for Village Voice in New York as an “underpaid writing slave for everything” . Gordon Lish encouraged her first literary attempts at writing and printed a text in his avant-garde magazine The Quarterly .

In the late 1980s and 1990s she published hectographed and self-printed fonts in small editions in the 'zine scene . That is done quickly:

write it off in a hurry, illustrate it yourself, lay it out yourself, then take it to a Xerox shop ... print it, and you'll have it out in two days .

When selling on the street, she received immediate feedback. A selection from her 'Zine Pagan's Head was published as a book in 1995 and a new edition in 2014. In 1996, technology magazine Wired named her the Zine Queen .

Her debut novel Spinsters (1995) was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction in 1996 . Kennedy has since published ten fiction and non-fiction books. In 2002 her report was printed on the missionary William Henry Sheppard who uncovered the 1909 genocide of the Cuba in the Congo .

Kennedy was visiting professor of creative writing at Dartmouth College and gave writing courses at Boston College and Johns Hopkins University, among others . She argues that “anyone can be a writer” if he expresses what is within himself and practices getting better on what comes with hard work.

Kennedy was a 2012/13 columnist for Who Made That for the New York Times . She writes or has contributed to The NYT Book Review , The Village Voice , Dwell , Details , Ms. , Playboy , The Nation , Boston Magazine, and The Boston Globe Magazine . She is considered to be opinionated.

Her awards include grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Smithsonian Institute .

Kennedy prefers to live in Somerville near Boston than in New York City .

Works (selection)

  • Inventology: how we dream up things that change the world . Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016
  • Do Android's Dream of Electric Authors? , The New York Times, October 14, 2011
  • The Dangerous Joy of Dr. Sex and Other True Stories . Santa Fe: Santa Fe Writers Project, 2008
  • The First Man-Made Man: The Story of Two Sex Changes, One Love Affair, and a Twentieth-Century Medical Revolution . New York, NY: Bloomsbury 2007
  • Confessions of a Memory Eater . Wellfleet, Mass .: Leapfrog Press, 2006
  • Black Livingstone: A True Tale of Adventure in the Nineteenth-Century Congo . New York: Viking, 2002
  • The Exes . New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998
  • Pagan Kennedy's Living: Handbook for Aging Hipsters . New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1997
  • Zine: How I Spent Six Years of My Life in the Underground and Finally ... Found Myself ... I Think . St. Martin's Press, 1995 ISBN 0-312-13628-5 (Chicago: Santa Fe Writer's Project, 2014)
  • Spinsters . New York: High Risk, 1995
    • Late girls: Roman . From the English by Angela Praesent . Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt 1997
  • Platforms: A Microwaved Cultural Chronicle of the 1970s . New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994
  • Stripping and other stories . New York: High Risk Books, 1994
  • Elvis's Bathroom . Short stories. 1989

literature

  • Lemma Pagan Kennedy , in: Kathleen J Edgar: Contemporary authors. A bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television, and other fields . Volume 146, Detroit: Gale Research, 1995
  • Amy Parzial: Pagan Kennedy , in: Geoff Hamilton, Brian Jones: Encyclopedia of Contemporary Writers and Their Works . New York, NY: Facts On File, Inc., 2010. pp. 224ff

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date at LCCN, different year of birth 1965 for Amy Parzial (2010)
  2. ↑ a b c d e Pagan Kennedy in conversation with Noel King , in: Jacket , Heft 8, 1999
  3. ↑ Harvey Blume: Zine Queen. Pagan Kennedy on Zines in the Age of Web. , in: Wired , January 1996
  4. ↑ DL Parsell: Black Livingstone Author Finds Unexpected Link , National Geographic News , March 1, 2002


personal data
SURNAME Kennedy, Pagan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Maryland