My Life with Jacqueline Kennedy

My Life with Jacqueline Kennedy is a 1969 memoir by Mary Barelli Gallagher (1927 – 2022), ghostwritten by Frances Spatz Leighton.

The New York Times called the book "a worm's-eye view of history commercially packaged by a backstairs ghost."

The reviewer continued to note that Gallagher provided "the venom" and "details" to Leighton, who "blended them together with the precision of a hack."

They concluded that the book offered no "fresh insights" and attempted to engage in character assassination and was made "to make a buck and settle scores.

"[2][3] A reviewer for The St. Louis Post-Dispatch called the book "depressing" and wrote that it had "colorless" style with "a few moving scenes.