Nancy B. Kennedy

Nancy B. Kennedy discovered the power of bylines in college when the Associated Press picked up a humorous op-ed piece she wrote for Penn State’s daily paper about a dorm-wide diet on campus. Thus, millions of people around the country were alerted to the nasty little fact that she wanted to drop a few pounds. Despite that auspicious start, Nancy launched into a satisfying career in daily newspapers. Eventually, she landed at Dow Jones, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal, in spite of the fact that at the time she didn’t know a stock from a bond. While talk of mortgages and retirement saving bring gaping yawns to most people, Nancy thrived in financial journalism and later took her show home as a freelancer. She has hundreds of bylines to her credit, each as exciting to her as the first, including many in the New York Times and the online Wall Street Journal. For ten years, she ghostwrote a syndicated personal-finance column for Merrill Lynch. Parenthood opened up new areas of interest—and concern!—so Nancy began to apply her financial know-how to such magazines as Christian Parenting Today and Parents of Teens. When she found her son needed a little something extra to make Bible stories interesting for him—and it was clear that arks made of popsicle sticks and cotton balls were beyond her ability—Nancy wrote her first children’s book combining Bible stories with science activities. The act of writing itself is what gets Nancy up in the morning—that, and a huge cup of coffee. She is thrilled to combine study of the Bible with her writing, and grateful for the opportunity to share her enthusiasm with her readers. She lives in a lovely part of New Jersey (there are a few!) with her husband, John, and their son, Evan.