Kathleen Brady is the author of Ida Tarbell: Portrait of A Muckraker, for which she was named a Fellow of the Society of American Historians; and Lucille: The Life of Lucille Ball. She is featured on many electronic media discussing both subjects. Among her current projects is serving as a Mentor-Editor of The Op-Ed Project.

She is a past co-chair of The Biography Seminar at New York University, a former reporter for Time magazine, and a former trustee of her alma mater Saint Bonaventure University, home of the Franciscan Institute, an international center for the study of Francis and Clare and the Franciscan intellectual tradition.