THE FIRST MAN-MADE MAN

Biography / History of science

It was 1950. Only two people in England had gone through medical sex changes. Both lived in fear of being exposed by the tabloid newspapers. And then Michael fell in love with Roberta.

Booklist starred selection: "Devastatingly good. ... Novelist Kennedy’s literary chops serve her well in this fascinating and heartbreaking social history."

CONFESSIONS OF A MEMORY EATER

" In her absorbing and timely novel, Pagan Kennedy explores love, addiction, and memory in the pharmaceutical age. Confessions packs an allegorical wallop." --Entertainment Weekly

Picked as an EW "Must Read" Book

SPINSTERS

- Shortlisted for the Orange Prize international literary award

- Winner of a Barnes & Noble Discover Award

-Publishers Weekly starred selection

"I'm reading a book at the moment by Pagan Kennedy called Spinsters. A writer who lives and works in Boston. I just started it on the plane this morning. It's absolutely wonderful. What it makes me want to do is to go back to Ireland today and get writing again, you know?"
-- Author Roddy Doyle in an interview with The Literary Review

Mesmerizing, as close to Shakespearean tragedy as you can come." 
- The New York Times Book Review

BLACK LIVINGSTONE
Biography / History of human-rights

-A New York Times Notable Book

-Winner of a Massachussetts Book Award Honor in Nonfiction

- Boston Phoenix top-ten nonfiction book of the year

"Kennedy resists the temptation to inflict a politically correct paradigm on her story and simply lets it tell itself... The result is a page-turner that illuminates as it breaks the heart." 
- Philadelphia Inquirer

THE EXES

"Pagan Kennedy, queen of the zines, writes with a sweet, trenchant wit and the delicacy of a modern-day Chekov."
-- San Francisco Chronicle

ZINE

"Delightful comic strips, fumati and prose.... Zine is reminiscent of R. Crumb's autobiographical comics." 
- Booklist

STRIPPING

"She might easily turn out to be one of the best writers of her generation." 
-Scotland on Sunday