Kate Hennessy (born 1960) is an American writer.

Life and work

Hennessy grew up

Weathersfield, Vermont Weathersfield is a New England town, town in Windsor County, Vermont, Windsor County, Vermont, United States. The population was 2,842 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. History The town of Weathersfield was named after Wethersfield ...

. She is the ninth and youngest child of David Hennessy and Tamar Day Hennessy, the only child of

Dorothy Day Dorothy Day, Oblate#Secular oblates, OblSB (November 8, 1897 – November 29, 1980) was an American journalist, social activist and Anarchism, anarchist who, after a bohemianism, bohemian youth, became a Catholic Church, Catholic without aba ...

. Her sister is Martha Hennessy. Hennessy was raised, in her words, "outside the church, but inside the Catholic Worker." Her work has been included in Best American Travel Writing. Kate attended

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private university, private research university in New York City, New York, United States. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded in 1832 by Albert Gallatin as a Nondenominational ...

and the

School for International Training The School for International Training, widely known by its SIT Graduate Institute, is a private non-profit regionally-accredited institution headquartered in Brattleboro, Vermont, United States. The institution has two main divisions. Graduate ...

in Vermont. Her book, ''Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved By Beauty: An Intimate Portrait of My Grandmother'' was the best spiritual writing of 2017 according to the

Chicago Tribune The ''Chicago Tribune'' is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Founded in 1847, it was formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper", a slogan from which its once integrated WGN (AM), WGN radio and ...

. It won a

Christopher Award The Christopher Award (established 1949) is presented to the producers, directors, and writers of books, films and television specials that "affirm the highest values of the human spirit". It is given by The Christophers, a Christian organizatio ...

. Kate lives in Ireland with her husband Garry Jones.

Books

*''Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved By Beauty'' Scribner, 2016 *''Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker: The Miracle of our Continuance'' Fordham University Press, 2016 collaboration with the photographer Vivian Cherry

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Kate Hennessy
1960 births Living people American women non-fiction writers Catholic Worker Movement People from Weathersfield, Vermont {{US-writer-stub