Kennedy and his then-wife moved to London that year, where Kennedy expanded his journalistic work, and wrote for The Sunday Times, The Sunday Telegraph, The Listener, the New Statesman, Le Monde, and the British editions of Esquire and GQ. After several radio plays for the BBC and one stage play, he decided to switch directions and wrote his first book, a narrative account of his travels in Egypt called Beyond the Pyramids, which was published in 1988. At the age of 28, he resigned from The Peacock to write full-time. He also co-produced the 1983 Irish drama film Attracta starring Wendy Hiller. He was later hired to run the Abbey Theatre's second house, The Peacock. In 1977, he returned to Dublin and started a co-operative theatre company with a friend. Kennedy married Grace Patricia Carley in 20 April 1985. In my work-in whatever form it takes-I am very much grappling with what it means to be American in this way."
By studying human history you really see how human folly endlessly repeats itself. So much of what I do in my own fiction is observational is looking at behavior. "Retrospectively, I think the history major provides much better training for a novelist. "I was a history major," Kennedy explained. He also spent a year studying at Trinity College Dublin. magna cum laude from Bowdoin College in 1976. He was educated at The Collegiate School and graduated with a B.A. Biography ĭouglas Kennedy was born in New York City in 1955, the son of a commodities broker and a production assistant at NBC. He is known for international bestsellers The Big Picture, The Pursuit of Happiness, Leaving the World and The Moment. Douglas Kennedy (born January 1, 1955) is an American novelist.
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