Keith Donohue (novelist)
Keith Donohue is an American novelist. He is the author of five novels: The Motion of Puppets, The Boy Who Drew Monsters, Centuries of June, Angels of Destruction, and The Stolen Child. His acclaimed 2006 novel The Stolen Child, about a changeling, was inspired by the Yeats poem of the same name.Background
Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he earned his B.A. and M.A. from Duquesne University and his Ph.D. in English from The Catholic University of America.
Until 1998 he worked at the National Endowment for the Arts and wrote speeches for chairmen John Frohnmayer and Jane Alexander, and is currently director of communications for the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the grant-making arm of the US National Archives in Washington, DC.
He has also written book reviews for the Washington Post.Works
