Event Speaker: Deirdre Kelly

Deirdre Kelly is a Canadian journalist, author and internationally recognized arts critic and style writer. She holds a Master’s degree in English from the University of Toronto and is the best-selling author of the nonfiction books, Paris Times Eight and Ballerina: Sex, Scandal and Suffering Behind the Symbol of Perfection, the latter taking the number one spot on a Top 10 list of the world’s best ballet books published by the Guardian newspaper in 2021. Her next book, Fashioning the Beatles: The Looks that Shook the World, will be published in the fall of 2023 by Sutherland House Books.