Linda Diane Bennett

Linda Diane Bennett (1955–1988) was an American artist associated with the Gee's Bend group of quilters.

[4] Like her mother, Ella Mae Irby, and her grandmother, Delia Bennett, Linda Diane Bennett was born and raised in Gee's Bend, Alabama.

She balanced year-round school and farming, along with her parents and siblings.

Once completing high school, she became deputy sheriff of Wilcox County, Alabama.

[5] Bennett borrowed heavily from her mother and grandmother's aesthetic and practice.