Kendall Hailey

Kendall Hailey is an American writer and autodidact. She graduated from high school a year early, at age 16, to pursue unschooling and wrote about her experiences in the book, The Day I Became an Autodidact and the Advice, Adventures, and Acrimonies that Befell Me Thereafter (Delacorte Press, , and Bantam Dell Publishing Group, New York, 1988, ). The book details first her decision to leave formal education, and follows her as she sets out to read everything ever published.

She is a daughter of playwright Oliver Hailey and novelist Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey.