19 Facts About Kennett Love

Kennett Farrar Potter Love was an American journalist for The New York Times.

Kennett Love attended John Burroughs School and Princeton University, receiving an Associate in Arts degree, before serving as a pilot in the Navy Air Corps during World War II.

Kennett Love received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia College in 1948.

In 1948, after finishing college, Kennett Love began working as a reporter for The Hudson-Dispatch, a newspaper in Union City, New Jersey before joining The New York Times in 1948, working in the morgue before becoming a newspaper reporter in 1950.

In 1953, Kennett Love wrote about the CIA-orchestrated plot to overthrow Iran's democratically elected prime minister.

In 1954, when he was based in Cairo, Kennett Love wrote front-page articles about the discovery of a 50-foot boat that had been intended to convey the spirit of the pharaoh Cheops to the underworld.

Between 1963 and 1964, Kennett Love served as a Peace Corps Planner-Evaluator in Ethiopia, Morocco, Tunisia and in training centers in the United States.

Between 1964 and 1968, Kennett Love was an associate professor at Princeton University's School of Oriental Studies.

Between 1971 and 1973, Kennett Love was a professor of journalism at the American University in Cairo, and served as a Cairo correspondent for ABC News.

In 1974 Kennett Love began a career as a free-lance writer, editor and photographer.

In 1984, Kennett Love denied helping the CIA with the 1953 Iran coup, while working for The New York Times, suing Wall Street Journal reporter Jonathan Kwitny, until, at least, 1993.

Kennett Love was a contributor to the publications New York Times Magazine, Washington Monthly, and Middle East Journal, and others.

Kennett Love began research and interviews for a history of the 1953 coup in Iran.

Kennett Love was named for the surname of an ancestor, Congressman Luther Martin Kennett.

In 1946, Kennett Love married Marie Felicite Pratt, and in 1973, Melinda Elisabeth Reed, and his partner in his final decades was Blair Seagram.

Kennett Love was a sailor, who taught celestial navigation at the East Hampton Marine Museum.

Kennett Love made ocean voyages in the Mediterranean, Atlantic, Caribbean and Pacific in yachts.

Kennett Love designed several buildings, including a house in Sag Harbor and a house in East Hampton.

Kennett Love died on May 13,2013, of a respiratory failure at his home in Southampton, New York, aged 88, survived by his daughters, Mary Christy Love Sadron and Suzanna Potter Love; two sons, John and Nicholas; two sisters, Mary Lehmann and Nathalie Love; a niece, Rue Matthiessen Shaughnessy; a nephew, Alex Matthiessen; and five grandchildren.