Orr Kelly is a veteran Washington newspaper and magazine correspondent. He covered the Pentagon, Justice Department, CIA and other government agencies for the Washington Star and U.S. News & World Report magazine. He was a war correspondent during the Vietnam War, was a Justice Department reporter at the height of the Watergate affair and covered the original moon landings.
He is the author of ten books, eight non-fiction and two special-forces thriller fiction books. He is a graduate of the University of Santa Clara and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Before coming to Washington, he was the publisher of the Berkeley Review in Berkeley, CA, and assistant city editor and reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle.
He splits his time between an apartment in Chevy Chase and a family farm near Keedysville, MD. He is the father of a son and daughter. His wife of 56 years (and co-author), Mary Davies Kelly, died in 2006.
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