Linda Wolfe (November 15, 1932 – February 22, 2020) was an American journalist, essayist, and fiction writer.,[1] best known for her award-winning work, Wasted: The Preppie Murder, an investigation of the so-called "rough sex" killer, Robert Chambers.
In addition, Wolfe wrote several other books based on true crimes and events, such as Double Life: The Downfall of Judge Sol Wachtler.
[5] Wolfe began her literary career in 1958 as an editorial assistant at Partisan Review alongside editors William Phillips and Philip Rahv.
In 1971 Wolfe was asked by Clay Felker to write about food for New York Magazine and was soon named a contributing editor, a position she maintained for the next 25 years.
She had one daughter, Jessica Bernstein, and two stepdaughters, Deborah and Judith Pollack, as well as two granddaughters, Miriam and Rachel, and two step-grandchildren, Daniel and Emma.