Kennett Love

Kennett Farrar Potter Love (August 17, 1924 – May 13, 2013) was an American journalist for The New York Times.

Early life Love was born in St. Louis, Missouri on August 17, 1924, to Mary Chauncey (née Potter) Love and John Allan Love, founder of Prudential Savings of St. Louis. before serving (1943–1946) as a pilot in the Navy Air Corps during World War II. with whom he had two daughters, Mary and Suzanna, and two sons, John and Nicholas.

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

Career In 1948, after finishing college, 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 1954, when he was based in Cairo, 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, Love served as a Peace Corps Planner-Evaluator in Ethiopia, Morocco, Tunisia and in training centers in the United States.

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

In 1984, 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. District Judge Mukasey found that Love's manuscript "suggested strongly that he may have played a role" in the coup.

Love was a contributor to the publications New York Times Magazine, Washington Monthly, and Middle East Journal, and others. U.S. Envoy Lauds Egyptian Regime, The New York Times, December 6, 1954 Jordan Pressure Denied By Britain, The New York Times, Jan 10, 1956 The American Role in the Pahlevi Restoration: On 19 August 1953, 1960. (unpublished manuscript submitted as a term paper (coursework) to a Princeton University professor while the Council on Foreign Relations Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow) The Allen Dulles Papers, Princeton University Library Box/Folder 359, Herbert Romerstein collection, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University Suez: The Twice-Fought War, a History. (New York and Toronto: McGraw Hill, 1969)

Awards eight-time winner of the Publisher's Writing Prize.

Personal life Kennett Love was named for the surname of an ancestor, Congressman Luther Martin Kennett. Love's siblings were John Allan Love, Jr., Mary Lehmann, Deborah Deacon Pollock Matthiessen, Cynthia Brooks Roth, and Nathalie Chauncey Pierrepont Love. Deborah was the wife of novelist Peter Matthiessen. Love was a great-grandson of Episcopal Bishop Horatio Potter, descended from Rhode Island Colony founders Roger Williams (1603-1683) and William Arnold (1587-c.1676), and from Dr. Bernard Gaines Farrar (1784-1849) of St. Louis.

In 1946, Love married Marie Felicité Pratt, and his partner in his final decades was Blair Seagram.