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Pagan Kennedy
Pagan Kennedy (born c. 1963) is an American columnist and author, and pioneer of the 1990s zine movement.
She has written ten books in a variety of genres, was a regular contributor to The Boston Globe, and has published articles in dozens of magazines and newspapers. In 2012–13, she was a The New York Times Magazine columnist.
Born Pamela Kennedy around 1963, she grew up in suburban Washington, D.C. She graduated from Wesleyan University in 1984, and later spent a year in the Masters of Fine Arts program at Johns Hopkins University.
Kennedy's autobiographical zine Pagan's Head detailed her life during her twenties.
In 2007, Kennedy wrote a biography called The First Man-Made Man about Michael Dillon, a British physician and author who in the mid-1940s became the first successful case of female-to-male sex change treatment that included a phalloplasty (the surgical construction of a penis).
In July 2012, Kennedy was named design columnist for The New York Times Magazine. Her column, "Who Made That", detailed the origins of a wide variety of things, such as the cubicle and the home pregnancy test. Kennedy resigned from the column after signing a contract with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to write a book, Inventology.[citation needed]
In 2020, Kennedy's investigation into the history of the first rape kit written for The New York Times, "The Rape Kit's Secret History", received national media attention. It led to a revival of interest surrounding Marty Goddard's story, including the auction of an early rape kit at Sotheby's. Kennedy went on to write a full-length book about the rape kit, which is forthcoming from Vintage Books in 2025.
Kennedy was a visiting professor of creative writing at Dartmouth College, and taught fiction and nonfiction writing at Boston College, Johns Hopkins University, and many other conferences and residencies.
Pagan Kennedy
Pagan Kennedy (born c. 1963) is an American columnist and author, and pioneer of the 1990s zine movement.
She has written ten books in a variety of genres, was a regular contributor to The Boston Globe, and has published articles in dozens of magazines and newspapers. In 2012–13, she was a The New York Times Magazine columnist.
Born Pamela Kennedy around 1963, she grew up in suburban Washington, D.C. She graduated from Wesleyan University in 1984, and later spent a year in the Masters of Fine Arts program at Johns Hopkins University.
Kennedy's autobiographical zine Pagan's Head detailed her life during her twenties.
In 2007, Kennedy wrote a biography called The First Man-Made Man about Michael Dillon, a British physician and author who in the mid-1940s became the first successful case of female-to-male sex change treatment that included a phalloplasty (the surgical construction of a penis).
In July 2012, Kennedy was named design columnist for The New York Times Magazine. Her column, "Who Made That", detailed the origins of a wide variety of things, such as the cubicle and the home pregnancy test. Kennedy resigned from the column after signing a contract with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to write a book, Inventology.[citation needed]
In 2020, Kennedy's investigation into the history of the first rape kit written for The New York Times, "The Rape Kit's Secret History", received national media attention. It led to a revival of interest surrounding Marty Goddard's story, including the auction of an early rape kit at Sotheby's. Kennedy went on to write a full-length book about the rape kit, which is forthcoming from Vintage Books in 2025.
Kennedy was a visiting professor of creative writing at Dartmouth College, and taught fiction and nonfiction writing at Boston College, Johns Hopkins University, and many other conferences and residencies.