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 (aged 75) New York City, U.S. |
| 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 Jazz & Pop magazine in the late 1960s, she was one of the first women rock critics. Kennealy-Morrison worked as an advertising copywriter, receiving two Clio nominations. She was a Dame of the Ordo Supremus Militaris Templi Hierosolymitani, a High Priestess in a Celtic Pagan tradition and a member of Mensa.