Linda Allen Hollis (born 1951) is an American historian and biographer.

Hollis was born and raised in Peoria, Illinois, in a large family of eleven children.

[4] Hollis attended Manual High School and received her undergraduate degree from Bradley University in Geology.

[3] Hollis' work focuses mainly on early American history and race relations.

[6] She written a memoir, I Cannot Tell a Lie: The True Story of George Washington's African American Descendants.