Citizenship American Name Miranda Kennedy Role Journalist | Occupation Journalist, writer Employer NPR | |
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Books Searching for Women Who Drink Whisky: Life and Love in India, Sideways on a Scooter: Life and Love in India Nominations Goodreads Choice Awards Best Travel & Outdoors Profiles | ||
Notable work Sideways on a Scooter |
Miranda kennedy rivera micro preemie born 24 weeks and 3 days
Miranda Kennedy (born 1975) is an American journalist and writer. Her first book, Sideways on a Scooter: Life and Love in India, was published by Random House in 2011. Part memoir, part reported nonfiction, it tells the story of several Indian women to describe the slow pace of social and cultural change in India. The book received praise from The Washington Post, Macleans and Kirkus Reviews among others.
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Kennedy lived in New Delhi, India for five years, as a reporter covering South Asia for National Public Radio and American Public Media's Marketplace Radio.
Kennedy is the senior editor at National Public Radio's Morning Edition. She holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from Bennington College in Vermont and a BA degree from Trinity College Dublin in Ireland.