NEW YORK. American writer and journalist Patricia Kennealy-Morrison, science fiction author, music critic and widow of rock star Jim Morrison (1943-1971), died on July 23 in New York at the age of 75. The news of the disappearance was published online by the science fiction magazine Locus.
Born March 4, 1946 in Brooklyn and raised on Long Island, Patricia Kennely attended St. Bonaventure University, where she studied journalism, and Binghamton University, majoring in English literature. After college, she worked at Macmillan as a lexicographer and editorial assistant. She was one of the first women to work as a rock and roll music critic and was a journalist and then editor-in-chief of the music magazine Jazz & Pop in the 60s. She met Jim Morrison, the charismatic leader and frontman of the US band The Doors, in 1969 during an interview and they quickly became romantically linked: they exchanged vows of allegiance during a Celtic wedding in 1970, although they were not legally married.
She recounted their relationship in a memoir entitled Strange Days: My Life With and Without Jim Morrison (1992). She published for years under the birth name Patricia Kennely and the variant Patricia Kennealy before legally changing her name to Patricia Kennealy-Morrison; she has also published books such as Patricia Morrison.
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Patricia Kennealy was a bullshit artist. She was never married to Jim Morrison, by all accounts she was his stalker, and psychopathically jealous of Pamela Courson. That’s Pam in the photo, by the way. You’ll be hard pushed to find a photo like that with Patricia Kennealy in it.
Wrong picture. That’s Pamela Courson, not Patricia Kennealy.