- She has written unauthorized biographies on many public figures. Her biographical subjects include Jacqueline Kennedy, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Reagan, and the British royal family.
- Washington D.C. (April 2010)
- Received the PEN Oakland Censorship Award.
- Graduated from St. Augustine's Elementary School and then attended the private prep school Holy Names Academy.
- Her first husband Michael Edgley was media director for the National Council on Aging. He later quit his job to help Kelley with her early books, even looking in the garbage of Elizabeth Taylor and her then husband, U.S. Senator John Warner.
- Her mother was an alcoholic.
- After graduating from college she worked at the 1964 New York World's Fair.
- Graduated from the University of Washington with a B.A. in English.
- Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The Washington Post, People, Ladies Home Journal, McCall's, Los Angeles Times and The Chicago Tribune.
- Has five sisters, Mary Cary, Ellen, Margaret, Adele Monica and Madeleine Sophie; and a brother, John.
- After she left the employ of Senator Eugene McCarthy she worked for two years as the editorial page researcher for the Washington Post.
- The eldest child of Adele and William Vincent Kelley, a lawyer who served as president of Spokane's bar association.
- For four years she was a receptionist-press secretary for Senator Eugene McCarthy.
- Received the Medal of Merit from the Lotos Club of New York City.
- Received the Outstanding Author Award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors for her "courageous writing on popular culture.".
- In 2008 she was on the board of Healthy Women.
- Is on the board of Reading is Fundamental.
- Is on the board of Washington Independent Review of Books.
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