Alanna Nash

Alanna Nash
Born (1950-08-16) August 16, 1950 (age 74)
Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.
Occupation
  • Journalist
  • biographer
Alma materStephens College
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

Alanna Kay Nash (born August 16, 1950) is an American journalist and biographer.

Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Nash holds a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and is the author of several acclaimed books.[1][2] She is a 1972 graduate of Stephens College.[3] A feature writer for The New York Times, Stereo Review, Entertainment Weekly, and USA Weekend, she was named the Society of Professional Journalists' National Member of the Year in 1994. In 1977, Nash's job afforded her the opportunity to become one of the journalists to view the remains of Elvis Presley. In her dust jacket biography for her book Baby, Let's Play House, she was described as "the first journalist to see Elvis Presley in his casket".[4]

  1. ^ Alanna Nash - Southern Living
  2. ^ Hall, Wade (2010-09-29). The Kentucky Anthology: Two Hundred Years of Writing in the Bluegrass State. University Press of Kentucky. p. 840. ISBN 978-0813138442.
  3. ^ White, Dan (1990). Stephens College. Louisville: Harmony House Publishers. ISBN 0-916509-75-3. OCLC 23941659.
  4. ^ Maslin, Janet (2009-12-27). "Alanna Nash Documents the Women in Elvis Presley's Life". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-03-29.