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Kaitlyn Tiffany

Biography

Kaitlyn Tiffany

Kaitlyn Tiffany is a staff writer at The Atlantic. She is the author of EVERYTHING I NEED I GET FROM YOU: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It and THE HOUSEWIVES UNDERGROUND: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the JFK Assassination Our Most Enduring Mystery. She is also the co-author, with Lizzie Plaugic, of the collection ON NOBODY FAMOUS: Guesting, Gossiping, Gallivanting. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Kaitlyn Tiffany

Books by Kaitlyn Tiffany

The Housewives Underground: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the JFK Assassination Our Most Enduring Mystery
by Kaitlyn Tiffany - History, Nonfiction

In the winter of 1967, the official account of the Kennedy assassination was beginning to unravel. A scattered group of Americans had pointed to major problems with the report prepared by President Johnson’s handpicked Warren Commission. Many of the most serious criticisms of the government’s work came from a source that surprised some: women who, within the community of critics, outnumbered the men two to one. Politicians and reporters dismissed these women, referring to them as “scavengers” and suggesting they were eccentrics with murder-mystery fixations or crushes on the deceased President Kennedy. But Kaitlyn Tiffany resurrects the story of Maggie Field, Shirley Martin and Sylvia Meagher, whose collaboration and friendship reshaped both their own lives and our national memory.