Kathleen Tynan

Kathleen Jeannette Halton Tynan (January 25, 1937 - January 10, 1995) was a Canadian-British journalist, author and screenwriter. The daughter of Canadian war correspondent Matthew Halton and the sister of television journalist David Halton, she gave up her journalism career in 1967 to marry theatre critic Kenneth Tynan. She had previously been married to Oliver Gates, a marriage that ended in divorce.

She published a novel, "The Summer Aeroplane", in 1975. The novel was later adapted into the film "Agatha", starring Dustin Hoffman and Vanessa Redgrave; Tynan collaborated with Arthur Hopcraft on the screenplay. She later also wrote a screenplay based on Louise Brooks' novel "Lulu in Hollywood", although that film was never produced.

Following Kenneth Tynan's death in 1980, Kathleen published her best-known book, the biography "The Life of Kenneth Tynan", in 1987. She subsequently edited and published an anthology of Kenneth's writing, "Profiles", in 1990, an anthology of her second husband's letters in 1994 and published some of her own theatre and literary criticism as well before her death in 1995.

She was portrayed by Catherine McCormack in the 2005 television film "".