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Barbara Leaming

Biography

Barbara Leaming

Barbara Leaming is the author of three New York Times bestsellers, including her recent book JACQUELINE BOUVIER KENNEDY ONASSIS. Leaming’s book CHURCHILL DEFIANT received The Emery Reves Award from the International Churchill Centre. Her groundbreaking biography of America's 35th President, JACK KENNEDY: The Education of a Statesman was the first to detail the lifelong influence of British history and culture and especially of Winston Churchill on JFK. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, the Timesof London and other periodicals. She lives in Connecticut.

Barbara Leaming

Books by Barbara Leaming

Kick Kennedy: The Charmed Life and Tragic Death of the Favorite Kennedy Daughter
by Barbara Leaming - Biography, History, Nonfiction

KICK KENNEDY begins with Kick’s arrival in England in 1938 as her father became the U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St James’s. In the closed world of the British aristocracy, Kick was gloriously, exhilaratingly different, the girl with whom all the boys fell in love. But she was the star of a world in the midst of tumultuous social and political change, and as war came, she would have to confront crushing sadness and the consequences of forsaking much dear to her for love, before her heartbreaking death in 1948.

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: The Untold Story
by Barbara Leaming - Biography, History, Nonfiction

Barbara Leaming’s biography is the first book to document Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’s brutal, lonely and valiant 31-year struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that followed JFK’s assassination. Here is the woman as she has never been seen before. In heartrending detail, we witness a struggle that unfolded at times before our own eyes, but that we failed to understand.