Kathleen Dixon Donnelly PhD

Kathleen Dixon Donnelly has been involved in teaching and the creative process for more than 40 years. Her thesis for her MBA from Duquesne University in her hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was Manager as Muse: Maxwell Perkins’ Work with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe, available on Amazon in both print and Kindle versions. “Such Friends”: The Literary 1920s is based in part on her dissertation for her Ph.D. in Communications from Dublin City University, on the creative development of writers in early 20th century salons. She has led walking and driving tours of Dublin and Coole Park in Ireland; London and Sussex in England; and the Left Bank of Paris. You can walk with her through Bloomsbury by downloading her tour, “Such Friends”: Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group from www.voicemap.me. She has given numerous presentations about the writers throughout the United Kingdom at the Southbank Centre, the University of the Third Age, and in the United States at the English Speaking Union, and Osher Lifelong Learning programs. Kathleen has self-published a series of books from her blogs as Gypsy Teacher, chronicling her voyages on Semester at Sea and relocation to the United Kingdom, available on Amazon. She recently retired as a senior lecturer in both the School of Media and Business School at Birmingham [UK] City University. She lives with her Irish husband Tony Dixon and their cat, Willie Yeats, in Pittsburgh. You can contact her by email at kaydee@gypsyteacher.com, through Twitter @SuchFriends, or through her blog, www.suchfriends.wordpress.com.