Linda Wolfe

Linda Wolfe is a journalist, essayist and fiction writer. She has published ten books, many of them about famous crimes, both contemporary and historic. Her most recent book, THE MURDER OF DR. CHAPMAN: The Legendary Trials of Lucretia Chapman and Her Husband , is a true life historical drama that culminates in a courtroom battle that raises haunting questions of racism and sexism.

Wolfe's previous nonfiction books are: LOVE ME TO DEATH A Journalist's Memoir of the Hunt for Her Friend's Killer; WASTED The Preppie Murder; DOUBLE LIFE The Story of Judge Sol Wachtler; THE PROFESSOR AND THE PROSTITUTE and Other True Tales of Murder and Madness; PLAYING AROUND Women and Adultery; THE COSMO REPORT Women and Sex in the Eighties; THE COOKING OF THE CARIBBEAN ISLANDS and THE LITERARY GOURMET. She has also published a novel, PRIVATE PRACTICES, several short stories and numerous articles and personal essays.

A longtime Contributing Editor of New York Magazine, her articles and essays have appeared in that magazine, as well as in the New York Times, Vanity Fair, Playboy, and many other publications.

She received an Edgar Award nomination for WASTED , which was a New York Times "Notable Book of the Year."

Wolfe is on the board of the National Book Critics Circle. She lives in New York with her husband, and has a daughter, two stepdaughters and two grandaughters.