[2] She has written ten books in a variety of genres,[3] was a regular contributor to The Boston Globe, and has published articles in dozens of magazines and newspapers.
[1] In 2007, Kennedy wrote a biography called The First Man-Made Man about Michael Dillon, a British physician and author who in the mid-1940s became the first successful case of female-to-male sex change treatment that included a phalloplasty (the surgical construction of a penis).
[8] Her column, "Who Made That", detailed the origins of a wide variety of things, such as the cubicle[9] and the home pregnancy test.
[10] Kennedy resigned from the column after signing a contract with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to write a book, Inventology.
[11][12][13] It led to a revival of interest surrounding Marty Goddard's story, including the auction of an early rape kit at Sotheby's.