
Pagan Kennedy
Author · 12 books
Pagan Kennedy is a regular contributor to the New York Times and author of eleven books. A biography titled Black Livingstone made the NewYork Times Notable list and earned Massachusetts Book Award honors. She also has been the recipient of a Barnes and Noble Discover Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, and a Smithsonian Fellowship for science writing. Visit her online at www.pagankennedy.net. "
Books

Inventology
How We Dream Up Things That Change the World
2015

Pagan Kennedy's Living
A Handbook for Maturing Hipsters
1997

Spinsters
1995

Black Livingstone
A True Tale of Adventure in the Nineteenth-Century Congo
2002

Confessions of a Memory Eater
2006

Zine
How I Spent Six Years of My Life in the Underground and Finally Found Myself-- I Think
1995

An Immense New Power to Heal
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
2012

The Secret History of the Rape Kit
A True Crime Story
2025

The First Man-Made Man
The Story of Two Sex Changes, One Love Affair, and a Twentieth-Century Medical Revolution
2007

Platforms
A Microwaved Cultural Chronicle of the 1970s
1994

Stripping + Other Stories
1993

The Exes
1998