Linda Wolfe
| Linda Wolfe | |
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| Born | Linda Wolfe November 15, 1932 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author, Book Critic |
| Citizenship | American |
| Genre | True crime, journalism, criticism, non-fiction |
| Notable works | Wasted: The Preppie Murder, The Professor and the Prostitute |
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Linda Wolfe is an American journalist, essayist, and fiction writer. She is best known for her award-winning work, Wasted: The Preppie Murder, an investigation of the so-called "rough sex" killer, Robert Chambers. Critic John Leonard called Wolfe a writer of "fierce intelligence". Wolfe is also a distinguished book critic and a founding member of the National Book Critics Circle.
Wolfe's Wasted was nominated for an Edgar Award and named a "Notable Book of the Year" by The New York Times. In addition, Wolfe wrote several other books based on true crimes and events, such as Double Life: The Downfall of Judge Sol Wachtler. Her articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine,Vanity Fair, Ladies Home Journal, Playboy, and several other publications.
Wolfe began her literary career in 1958 as an editorial assistant at Partisan Review alongside editors William Phillips and Philip Rahv. During her time at Partisan, Wolfe studied for a M.A. degree in American Literature at New York University and began research on what would be her first published work, The Literary Gourmet. This book would be one of the first to explore the ways and reasons the world's great novelists used dining scenes to illuminate character. In 1960 Wolfe started working for Time Inc., first in the copy department of Life Magazine, then as a researcher and writer for Time-Life Books, where she published her second book, The Cooking of the Caribbean Islands.
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