Leigh Kennedy

Leigh Kennedy ( * June 4, 1951 in Denver, nee Laura L. McClure ) is a resident in England American writer.

Life

She was married from 1969 to 1978 with the short story writer John Kennedy. Your studies at Metropolitan State College of Denver, she joined in 1979 with a bachelor's degree in history from. In 1980, she moved to Austin, Texas, in 1985 to England and now has British citizenship. She is married since 1988 with the science fiction author Christopher Priest and mother of two children. She lives in Hastings, in southeast England.

Letter

Kennedy's first novel, The Journal of Nicholas the American acts simultaneously on the difficulty of integration of Russian immigrants of the second generation in the U.S. society and the problems of an empath, that of someone who can perceive the feelings of his fellow men by a special gift. Her second novel Saint Hiroshima portrays the trauma of two young people and how they cope or how this trauma affects their future life.

Your short story Her Furry Face ( 1983, German in 1986 as her pretty fur face) was in 1983 nominated for the Nebula Award, her short story The Silent Cradle (1983, German in 1991 as Russell ) in 1984 for the World Fantasy Award, her novel The Journal of Nicholas the American in 1987 for the Nebula Award, and her short story from 2001 Wind Angels for the British Science Fiction Association Award 2001.

Works

Novels

• The Journal of Nicholas the American. Jonathan Cape, London, 1986, ISBN 0-224-02349-7.

• Saint Hiroshima. Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 1987, ISBN 0-747-50061-4.

Short story collections

• Faces. Jonathan Cape, London, 1986, ISBN 0-224-02807-3.
• Wind Angels. PS Publishing, Hornsea 2011, ISBN 978-1-84863-197-7.