Linda Rosenkrantz (born May 26, 1934) is an American writer, known for her innovations in the realm of “nonfiction fiction,” most prominently in her novel Talk, a New York Review Books classic.

[10][11][12] In 1986, Rosenkrantz began writing a weekly column, Contemporary Collectibles, which was widely syndicated by Copley News Service for 25 years.

[13] In 1968, Rosenkrantz’s novel Talk, based on the taped conversations of herself and two friends in East Hampton, Long Island, was published by Putnam’s in New York and by Anthony Blond in London two years later, followed by a New American Library paperback edition.

[14][15][16] Nearly half a century later, Talk was reissued as a New York Review Books Classic,[17] receiving positive attention in The New York Times,[18][19] New Statesman, The Guardian,[20] Paris Review[21] (whose then-editor Lorin Stein, picked Talk as his #1 summer book of 2015), New Republic,[22] The Nation[23] Harper's, The Village Voice (”a favorite of the year”), and other periodicals.

An excerpt appeared on Literary Hub, and Rosenkrantz was featured on NPR’s Bookworm show[24] and New York magazine’s Sex Lives podcast.