John Kelly

John Kelly is the author of ten books that meld history, science and human behavior. His most recent book, The Graves Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People (Henry Holt in U.S., Faber and Faber in U.K., 2012), chronicles the events and circumstances surrounding the Great Irish Potato Famine, one of the epic tragedies of modern times. The book was a New York Times Editor’s Choice and selected as a Cultural Highlight of 2012 by The Irish Times. In a review, The Economist called the book, “An engrossing narrative of the famine, vividly detailing Victorian society and the historical phenomena (natural and man-made) that converged to form the disaster.”