Ardyth Kennelly

Ardyth Matilda Kennelly was an American novelist, with five novels published between 1949 and 1956 and one published posthumously, in 2014. Kennelly was born in Glenada, Oregon, and briefly lived in Salt Lake City, before moving back to Albany, Oregon. She attended Albany High School, where she graduated in 1929. After high school, she attended Oregon State College for three years, but she did not graduate. Before her career as a novelist, Kennelly wrote stories for The Manuscript while she attended Oregon State College, the Improvement Era, and pulp magazines. Kennelly wrote five novels that were published during her lifetime: The Peaceable Kingdom; The Spur; Good Morning, Young Lady; Up Home; and Marry Me, Carry Me. Her final novel, Variation West, was published posthumously, as were two memoirs: Bodies Adjacent, and New York on $5 a Day. Kennelly developed a second career as a collage and mixed media construction artist. Her work was featured in two exhibits, in 1996 and 2000. Kennelly moved to Vancouver, Washington, late in life to be with her sister, where she died at the age of 92.