Ellen Edwards Kennedy calls herself a "Southern-ized Yankee,"
which means she knows how to use "y’all" properly, but never
drops her g’s. Born in Alabama, she grew up in Miss Prentice’s region
of far northern New York State and lived with her husband and children
across the South and West. She feels this has given her a deep love for
these areas and a sharp ear for regional accents.
Through high school and college, she performed in summer stock and
briefly nursed the vain dream of becoming a Broadway musical star, but
settled for a career as an advertising copywriter. Her recent experiences
as a high school substitute teacher make her uniquely qualified to
translate obscure adolescent dialects into understandable English. She is
a volunteer reader at the Triangle Reading Service, which provides audio
literature to the visually impaired.
Kennedy is a member of Sisters in Crime, a graduate of Huntingdon
College, a mother of two lovely grown-up daughters, a happily married wife
of 25 years, and a born-again Christian. She is currently at work on a
Miss Prentice sequel and a mystery set in small-town Texas. She and her
husband live in North Carolina.
Write the Author: MissPrentice@aol.com
