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Patricia Kennealy-Morrison (born Patricia Kennely; March 4, 1946) is an American author and journalist. Her published works include rock criticism, a memoir, and two series of science fiction/fantasy and murder mystery novels. Her books are evenly divided between the series ''The Keltiad'' and ''The Rock&Roll Murders: The Rennie Stride Mysteries''. As first a writer and then the editor-in-chief of ''Jazz and Pop'' magazine in the late 1960s, she was one of the first women rock critics. Kennealy-Morrison has worked as an advertising copywriter, receiving two Clio nominations. She is a Dame of the Ordo Supremus Militaris Templi Hierosolymitani, a High Priestess in a Celtic Pagan tradition and a member of Mensa.〔Kennealy-Morrison, Patricia (1998) ''Blackmantle - A Book of The Keltiad''. New York, HarperPrism ISBN 0-06-105610-3〕 ==Life and career== Kennealy-Morrison was born in Brooklyn, New York, and reared on Long Island in the hamlet of North Babylon.〔 She attended St. Bonaventure University for two years, majoring in Journalism. She later transferred to Harpur College (now Binghamton University) where she graduated with a B.A. in English Literature in 1967. She has also studied at NYU, Parsons School of Design, and Christ Church, University of Oxford. After her college graduation at age 21, she then moved to New York City, where she worked first as a lexicographer for Macmillan Publishing, then as an editorial assistant and, from 1968–1971, editor-in-chief of ''Jazz and Pop'' magazine. She was one of the first female rock critics, leaving the field in 1972.〔 As editor-in-chief of ''Jazz and Pop'' she first interviewed Jim Morrison of the rock band The Doors in January 1969. After the interview, they began a correspondence, became friends and later lovers. She and Morrison exchanged marriage vows in a Celtic handfasting ceremony in June 1970.〔 Before witnesses, one of them a Presbyterian minister, - according to her memoir - the couple signed a document declaring themselves wed.〔Kennealy (1992) p.175, plate 7.〕 Although handfasting, like other purely religious ceremonies, is not legal unless the appropriate State paperwork is filed, she later changed her legal name to include Morrison's name, and Morrison addressed letters and poems to her as "Patricia Morrison" and "my wife, Patricia".〔, "written by Jim for Patricia, June 1970." from ''Jim and Patricia -- 1968 - 1971'' on the lizardqueen.com website (Internet Archive, accessed 2007-04-16)〕 However, according to New York State case law set forth in Persad v. Balram, Judge Darrell L. Gavrin presiding, and previous similar cases, the marriage can be held to be a legal one, as it was a religious ceremony performed by a cleric of that religion and took place in front of a witness; moreover, both parties set their signatures to a marriage document. From the ''Daily Record'', New York Domestic Relations Law: "A New York marriage will not be rendered void for failure to procure a marriage license. Further, precedent makes it clear that there is a presumption favoring validity of a marriage, and the court is to look to the facts and evidence as to the existence of a marriage between parties. The issue of determining the validity of a marriage has long been before New York courts, not only in matrimonial actions but in estate contests. The principle followed by New York courts can be summed up by In Re Tompkins: 'The presumption of the validity of a marriage is sufficiently strong to cast the burden of showing its invalidity upon those who attack it,” 207 App. Div. 166, 176 (1st Dept. 1923)'." Kennealy-Morrison served as an advisor on Oliver Stone's 1991 movie ''The Doors'', and played a small role in the film as the High Priestess who marries the Jim and Patricia characters (portrayed by Val Kilmer and Kathleen Quinlan). However, in subsequent interviews and writings, she was scathingly critical of Stone's portrayal of Morrison, herself, and other people who were the basis for the film's fictional characters, saying Stone's fiction bore little to no resemblance to the people she had known or the events they lived through; Stone admitted that the character named after her was a composite of several of Morrison's girlfriends and regretted not giving her a fictional name.〔Kennealy (1992) pp.378-381, 416-420.〕 In the film her character is referred to as a "Wicca Priestess", but Kennealy-Morrison identifies as a Celtic Pagan, not a Wiccan.〔 Kennealy-Morrison has gone on record that she wrote and had published (E.F. Dutton, 1992) her memoir ''Strange Days: My Life With and Without Jim Morrison'' as a reaction and rejoinder to Stone's movie, among other reasons. In 2000, Robin Ventura, third baseman for the pennant-winning New York Mets, took the phrase "Mojo Risin" from The Doors' "L.A. Woman" and made it the rallying cry for the team that year. Ventura and the Mets invited Kennealy-Morrison to a game just before the playoffs, where she met with them and became a Mets fan.〔Berardino, Mike. (September 7, 2002) "(Mets have only themselves to blame after trading Ventura )" in the ''South Florida Sun-Sentinel''. Access date June 8, 2007〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Patricia Kennealy-Morrison」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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