Pittsburgh is home to an incredible range of authors, publishing professionals, literary event organizers and opinion leaders.
Our city nurtures well-known and emerging literary talent and is the inspiration for many works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. In addition to the authors you may recognize, Littsburgh’s evolving literary roster features some of the passionate people who work behind the scenes to find local and national audiences for this work, and who help make Pittsburgh a haven for writers and readers.
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Biography
Kathleen Dixon Donnelly has been involved in writing and the creative process for over 40 years. Her dissertation for her Ph.D. in Communications from Dublin City University, “Such Friends,” was on the creative development of writers in early 20th century salons, including the Irish Literary Renaissance, the Bloomsbury group, the Americans in Paris in the 1920s, and the Algonquin Round Table.
Kathleen posts regularly about “The Literary 1920s” at http://www.suchfriends.wordpress.com and on Twitter, @SuchFriends. The blog postings have been published as a series, “Such Friends”: The Literary 1920s. Volumes I through III are available on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk in both print and e-book formats.
Kathleen’s thesis for her MBA from Duquesne University was Manager as Muse: A Case Study of Maxwell Perkins’ Work with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe. A version of Manager as Muse is also available on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk in both print and e-book formats.
She also has a BA in English, Theatre and Art from Lycoming College in Williamsport, PA, and an MA in Education from Birmingham City University [BCU] in the UK.
Kathleen recently retired as a senior lecturer at BCU. She has done presentations to many lifelong learning groups in the UK and the US, including the Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes at Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, as well as The Southbank Center, the English-Speaking Union, and The Florida Center for the Book.
Kathleen and her husband Tony Dixon recently relocated from the UK to her hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where they live in Highland Park with their two cats, Gertrude Stein and Robert Benchley.
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