Patricia Kennealy-Morrison
Patricia Kennealy-Morrison | |
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Born | Patricia Kennely March 4, 1946 New York City, U.S. |
Died | July 21, 2021 New York City, U.S. | (aged 75)
Education | St. Bonaventure University Harpur College (BA) New York University Parsons School of Design Christ Church, Oxford |
Occupation(s) | Journalist, writer |
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Patricia Kennealy-Morrison (born Patricia Kennely; March 4, 1946 – July 21, 2021) was 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
Life and career
Kennealy-Morrison was born in
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 also studied at NYU, Parsons School of Design, and Christ Church, University of Oxford.
After her college graduation at age 21, she 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.[3] She was one of the first female rock critics.[6]
As editor-in-chief of Jazz & Pop she first interviewed
Kennealy-Morrison served as an advisor to
Kennealy-Morrison published the memoir Strange Days: My Life With and Without Jim Morrison as response and rejoinder to Stone's film.[3]
In 2000,
Name
The author's legal name was "Patricia Kennealy Morrison".[3] As a rock critic and editor, she initially published under her birth name, "Patricia Kennely", and later "Patricia Kennealy" (both are pronounced the same; she changed the spelling to be closer to the pronunciation).[2][3] From 1994 to 2007 her books were published as "Patricia Kennealy-Morrison", with the hyphen.[2][3] Ungrateful Dead and the subsequent Rennie Stride novels were her first books to be published as simply "Patricia Morrison". The author had said that she wished to make a distinction between her Celtic fantasy novels and the murder mysteries, so decided to use different versions of her name rather than an invented pen name.
Lizard Queen Press, the Rennie Stride Mysteries and more recent work
Following a 1999 split with her publisher HarperCollins, on May 19, 2007, Kennealy-Morrison announced via her blog that she planned to start her own publishing house, Lizard Queen Press, and to self-publish novels and non-fiction. The next
but she turned to mystery writing instead.The first book to carry the Lizard Queen Press imprint is Ungrateful Dead: Murder at the Fillmore, published in 2007, first in the Rennie Stride series, which to date consists of six published books, all released on Lizard Queen Press. Additionally on LQP are Rock Chick: A Girl and Her Music (2013), a collection of PKM's writings originally published in Jazz & Pop magazine, Tales of Spiral Castle: Stories of the Keltiad (August 2014), a short-story collection set in her Keltiad world, and the forthcoming Son of the Northern Star, a fictional account of the great conflict between the Viking king Guthrum and Alfred the Great.
Ungrateful Dead: Murder at the Fillmore is the first in a series of murder mysteries set in the turbulent world of 1960s rock & roll. Ungrateful Dead introduces the protagonist, Rennie Stride, rock reporter/detective, and her boyfriend (later husband) Turk Wayland, superstar English lead guitarist. Kennealy-Morrison has described the series as:
Seamlessly blending the fictional with the real: the stars, the bands, the music, all the excitement of the most incredible decade of the last century ... Full of rockworld dish and attitude, created by someone who was not only there for it but made some of it happen herself, and who took just enough drugs to get into it and not so many that she can't remember it ...[23]
Ungrateful Dead was published on November 1, 2007, to coincide with both the Day of the Dead and The Celtic New Year.[23] Further novels in the Rennie Stride series are California Screamin': Murder at Monterey Pop (May 2009), Love Him Madly: Murder at the Whisky (March 2010), A Hard Slay's Night: Murder at the Royal Albert Hall (January 2011), Go Ask Malice: Murder at Woodstock (November 2012), and Scareway to Heaven: Murder at the Fillmore East (December 2014). The most recent in the series is Daydream Bereaver: Murder on the Good Ship Rock&Roll (published March 2016).
Death
She died in her sleep, at the age of 75 on July 21, 2021, in bed in her apartment. The cause of death was listed as complications from heart disease.[1]
Bibliography
Novels
The Keltiad
- Blackmantle: A Triumph (1997)
- Tales of Spiral Castle: Stories of the Keltiad (2014) short stories
Tales of Aeron
- The Copper Crown (1984)
- The Throne of Scone (1986)
- The Silver Branch (1988)
Tales of Arthur
- The Hawk's Gray Feather (1990)
- The Oak Above the Kings (1994)
- The Hedge of Mist (1996)
Colloquies of the Ancients
- The Deer's Cry (1998)
The Rennie Stride Mysteries
The Rock & Roll Murders
- Ungrateful Dead: Murder at the Fillmore (2007)
- California Screamin': Murder at Monterey Pop (2009)
- Love Him Madly: Murder at the Whisky (2010)
- A Hard Slay's Night: Murder at the Royal Albert Hall (2011)
- Go Ask Malice: Murder at Woodstock (2012)
- Scareway to Heaven: Murder at the Fillmore East (2014)
- Daydream Bereaver: Murder on the Good Ship Rock&Roll (2016)
Non-fiction
- Strange Days: My Life With and Without Jim Morrison (1992)
- Rock Chick: A Girl and Her Music (2013)
Anthologies
- Rock She Wrote: Women Write About Rock, Pop, and Rap, eds. Evelyn McDonnell and ISBN 0-385-31250-4. pp. 358–363.
- The Faces of Fantasy: Photographs by Patti Perret, intro. by Terri Windling, ISBN 0-312-86182-6
- ISBN 0-446-61090-9
References
- ^ a b McDonnell, Evelyn (August 4, 2021). "Patricia Kennealy-Morrison, rock journalist, author and partner of Jim Morrison, dies at 75". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on August 4, 2021. Retrieved August 4, 2021. Alt URL
- ^ ISBN 0-06-105610-3
- ^ ISBN 0-525-93419-7.
- ^ "Kennealy-Morrison, Patricia 1946– | Encyclopedia.com".
- ^ "Conversations with Patricia Kennealy-Morrison (side A)". Wild Hunt. December 6, 2015. Retrieved December 4, 2023.
- ISBN 0-385-31250-4.
- ^ ISBN 0-688-11915-8.
- ^ ISBN 0-85965-138-X.
- ISBN 0-525-93419-7.
- ISBN 0-525-93419-7.
- ISBN 0-688-11915-8.
- ^ ISBN 0-688-11915-8.
- ^ Burks, John (December 10, 2010). "Jim Morrison's Indecency Arrest: Rolling Stone's Original Coverage". Rolling Stone. Retrieved February 19, 2017.
[He] became the object of six arrest warrants, including one for a felony charge of "Lewd and lascivious behavior in public by exposing his private parts and by simulating masturbation and oral copulation."
The five other warrants are for misdemeanor charges on two counts of indecent exposure, two counts of open public profanity and one of public drunkenness. - ISBN 978-0-688-06966-7.
- ^ ISBN 0-525-93419-7. The author notes the pregnancy was not her choice.
- ISBN 0-688-11915-8.
- ISBN 0-525-93419-7.
- ISBN 0-688-11915-8.
- ^ Kiselyak, Charles (1997). The Road of Excess (documentary).
- ^ Kennealy (1992) pp. 378–381, 416–420.
- ^ Berardino, Mike. (September 7, 2002) "Mets have only themselves to blame after trading Ventura Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine" in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Access date June 8, 2007
- ^ Kennealy-Morrison, Patricia (May 19, 2007) "Return to Keltia and Other Places" (accessed May 21, 2007)
- ^ a b c Kennealy-Morrison, Patricia (June 21, 2007) Blog post: "Turn On, Tune In, Drop Dead – The Rennie Stride Mysteries" (accessed July 3, 2007)
External links
- Mrs Morrison's Hotel – Patricia Kennealy-Morrison's official blog
- lizardqueen.com – Archive of Patricia Kennealy-Morrison's official website
- Patricia Kennealy Morrison's LiveJournal
- Patricia Kennealy-Morrison at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Patricia Kennealy-Morrison at IMDb
- An interview with Patricia Kennealy-Morrison about the 1991 film The Doors
- Interview with Patricia Kennealy-Morrison in Taliesin's Successors: Interviews with Authors of Modern Arthurian Literature
- "Author's Dragon*Con biography". Archived from the original on July 8, 2007. Retrieved July 6, 2007. (accessed June 6, 2008)
- Patricia Kennealy-Morrison, Pioneering Rock Journalist, Fantasy Novelist and Partner to Jim Morrison, Dies at 75 – includes remembrances from family and friends