Kerry Kennedy is writing 'intimate' book about her mother, Ethel Kennedy

NEW YORK – Kerry Kennedy is moving connected a publication astir her precocious mother, Ethel Kennedy. “Ethel: Faith, Hope, Family, and an Extraordinary American Life” is scheduled to travel retired successful the autumn of 2026.

“This intimate representation of Ethel Skakel Kennedy offers a unsocial model into the beingness of a pistillate whose compassion, resilience, and dedication to justness person near an indelible people connected American history,” reads an announcement released Tuesday by HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

Kerry Kennedy, 65, is 1 of 11 children calved to Ethel Kennedy and Robert Kennedy, the lawyer general, U.S. legislator and statesmanlike campaigner who was assassinated successful 1968. Ethel Kennedy, who died successful 2024 astatine property 96, was an activistic who founded the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, present called Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. Kerry Kennedy serves arsenic its president.

“Ethel” was co-written by Kerry Kennedy and writer Maryanne Vollers, who has worked connected books by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Billie Jean King among others.

“Kerry Kennedy draws upon her idiosyncratic experiences and heavy admiration to archer the communicative of her mother’s life,” according to HarperOne. “From Ethel’s aboriginal years arsenic a spirited young pistillate to her enduring power arsenic a matriarch of 1 of America’s astir storied families, ‘Ethel’ is an exploration of courage, empathy, and the powerfulness of activism.”

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