SBU to welcome acclaimed writer Patricia Kennealy-Morrison
ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y., April 11, 2006 — St. Bonaventure University will
welcome a former journalism student and acclaimed writer to campus when Patricia
Kennealy-Morrison, widow of the late musician Jim Morrison, visits the campus.
Kennealy-Morrison will visit campus April 19-21 to speak with journalism classes. She will also speak about her 1992 memoir, “Strange Days: My Life With and Without Jim Morrison,” at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 20, in the Dresser Auditorium of the John J. Murphy Professional Building. The public is invited.
Kennealy-Morrison, author of “The Keltiad,” the acclaimed series of Celtic science-fantasy novels —ancient legends transported to outer space, King Arthur meets “Star Wars” — was born in New York City and has lived there all her adult life. She grew up in North Babylon, N.Y., and attended St. Bonaventure University before transferring to and graduating from Harpur College (now Binghamton University) with a bachelor’s degree in English literature.
From 1968 to 1971, she was the editor-in-chief of Jazz & Pop, a well-respected progressive music magazine, and is considered one of the first female rock critics.
“The Copper Crown,” her first Keltiad book, was published in 1984, and the eighth, “The Deer’s Cry,” in 1999. She recently finished writing “The Crystal Ship: The Priestess and The Shaman — The Spiritual Voyage of Patricia & Jim Morrison,” a spiritual memoir, and “The Gates of Overwave,” a children’s fairytale.
Kennealy-Morrison is working on the ninth Keltiad book (“The Cloak of Gold”); a mystery series; a historical novel about King Alfred the Great’s Viking adversary, Guthrum the Dane; a feature/interview with big-wave surfer Laird Hamilton on the spirituality of surfing; venturing into songwriting and developing several projects for movies and television.
In January 1969 she met Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors, in a private interview; they were married in a Celtic wedding ceremony in June 1970. He died July 3, 1971, in Paris.
Knighted at Roslin Chapel in Scotland in 1990 as a Dame of the Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem (the modern-day incarnation of the ancient Knights Templar), she is a member of Mensa and has been a priestess in a Celtic Pagan spiritual tradition for 40 years.
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