Kitty Kelley, the author of unauthorized bestselling biographies of Oprah Winfrey and Nancy Reagan, will turn her gossipy form of reporting to the women of the United States Senate, her publisher said Monday. The book is tentatively set for publication this spring.
According to Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette Book Group, Ms. Kelley was attracted to the project because the current 113th Congress has the largest number of women ever, and she was interested in how they would influence power.
At the beginning of her career, Ms. Kelley worked as a receptionist and the press assistant for Senator Eugene McCarthy for four years. She said in a press release that she was approaching the project “with a positive bias.†She said she would also try to answer the question of whether “the presence of women can break the ugly gridlock now choking Congressâ€
In addition to Ms. Winfrey and Nancy Reagan, Ms. Kelley has written on the Bush family, the British Royal family, Frank Siatra and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
