Kathleen Dixon Donnelly has been involved in teaching and the creative process for over 40 years. Her dissertation for her Ph.D. in Communications from Dublin City University, “Such Friends,” was on the creative development of writers in early 20th century salons, including the Irish Literary Renaissance, the Bloomsbury group, the Americans in Paris in the 1920s, and the Algonquin Round Table.
Kathleen is the author of the blog "Such Friends": 100 Years Ago [www.suchfriends.wordpress.com] and the paperback series "Such Friends": The Literary 1920s, Volumes I through V covering 1920 to 1924 are available on Amazon in print or e-book formats.

Her Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group in the Literary 1920s will be published by Pen and Sword Books in January 2026 and is available for pre-order on Amazon.

Kathleen’s first self-published book, Manager as Muse: Maxwell Perkins’ Work with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe, is based on her thesis for her MBA from Duquesne University in her hometown of Pittsburgh, PA, and is available on Amazon in print or e-book formats.

Kathleen has retired from Birmingham City University and lives with her husband Tony Dixon and their two cats, Gertrude Stein and Robert Benchley, in Pittsburgh, PA,. You can contact her at [email protected].