| Linda Yellin | |
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| Born | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | American |
| Genres | Fiction; Memoir; Humor |
| Notable work(s) | The Last Blind Date (2011) Such a Lovely Couple (2011) |
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www.lindayellin.com |
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Linda Yellin is an American memoirist, novelist, and humorist[1][2]. Her original birth name was Melinda Jacobson. She first lived in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois until her family moved to Lincolnwood, Illinois. When she was 15 she was adopted by her stepfather and changed her name to Linda Yellin. Her family moved to Wilmette, Illinois, where she attended New Trier High School East and was head writer of New Trier’s annual Lagniappe review the year it was shut down for her parody of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. She received a BS from the University of Illinois in Champagne-Urbana where she met her first husband, Rick Cadwell, a former Vietnam Marine vet.
Rick and Linda Cadwell were married for ten years until their divorce. The couple reunited after Rick’s diagnosis of a brain tumor. Her fist novel, Such A Lovely Couple, written and published after Rick’s death, was dedicated to him.[3] Publishers' Weekly reviewed her as having “the wit and verve of Susan Isaacs.”[4] Such A Lovely Couple was reissued as an ebook in September 2011 by Gallery Books of Simon & Schuster.[5]
Most of Linda’s career was spent in the Chicago advertising industry where she worked at Needham, Harper & Stears (now DDB), J. Walter Thomson (now JWT), Foote, Cone and Belding (now DraftFCB) and Ogilvy and Mather (now Ogilvy) She has published many national magazine pieces, including several short stories featuring an ongoing character, Daphne Bogin, for Redbook magazine[6] and humor pieces for More magazine.[7] In 1996 Linda Yellin married Randy Arthur and moved to New York. Her memoir, The Last Blind Date, was published in October, 2011 by Gallery Books of Simon & Schuster.[8]