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Linden jump-started her journalism career by securing an assistant editorship on the Ladies’ Home Journal with nothing more to show than a couple of magazine clips and a B.A. in Creative Writing. Within a year, she had been promoted to associate editor. While at LHJ, she wrote and edited features and celebrity profiles, penned a travel column as well as travel features, and oversaw the production of special inserts. Deciding to return to California after three years in Manhattan, she moved to The Los Angeles Times Magazine as special features editor, where she edited and wrote for another three years before opting for a freelance career.
In her capacity as a national magazine journalist, Linden has written about tenants battling harassment for Ms.; about Steven Spielberg’s Survivors of the Shoah Foundation for the Reader’s Digest; about denial and anxiety for Redbook; and about how the town of Valdez coped with the 1989 oil spill for the Ladies’ Home Journal. In addition to two articles about stalking which prompted her first book, Linden has also written a feature about women vice cops for Cosmopolitan, as well as an investigative article about how the tabloids fabricate their sensationalized celebrity-related cover stories.
The many profiles she has written include celebrities such as Mel Gibson, Jane Fonda, Oprah Winfrey, the Olsen twins, Jimmy Smits, and Dolly Parton. She has also profiled a succession of people who, while they may not be in the spotlight, have great stories to tell.
From 1998 until Woman’s Own magazine folded in 2004, she wrote a bi-monthly column, initially titled “Women Making a Difference” and subsequently renamed “Women Doing It Their Way.” Each column featured “the world’s shortest biographies” of three women or groups of women.
Finally, she also writes about travel, food and drink whenever possible. She blames these passions on her parents, who raised her in Latin America, Europe and on both U.S. coasts and taught her to appreciate neighborhood dives as well as four-star indulgence.