Linda Wallace
Bio: Linda Wallace grew up on a farm in Missouri, a glorious place for childhood. She spent the first seven or eight years of her life pretending to be a horse galloping and nickering in her yard and the surrounding fields. The nearest "city" a few miles from the farm is Arrow Rock with a grand total of 75 residents. But Arrow Rock is no ordinary country hamlet. The Arrow Rock Lyceum, an equity summer repertory theatre, brings glamour and fantasy to Missouri every summer. Ignoring the fact that her acting skills are negligible, Linda likes to say she's a "professional" actor, unlike most wannabe waiter/taxi driver/actors, because as a reward for long hours of babysitting for the theater?s director during her high school years, she was given a paying role as Rose in She Stoops to Conquer. Since her girlhood days, Linda has lived in many cities all across the U.S. from Kealakekua on the big island of Hawaii to the Bronx in New York. Her three children's births were spaced across the country, too; the oldest was born in New York, middle child in Kansas, and youngest in Hollywood. She currently lives in Seattle with her husband and cat, and yes, she loves the rain. Jobs and interests have been equally wide-ranging including nurses' aid, stockings clerk at Macy's in Manhattan, waitress at the Kailua-Kona Hilton, weekly newspaper publisher, advertising salesperson for The Los Angeles Times, elementary school para-educator, and administrative assistant. Everywhere she's gone, though, one of the first considerations was always where was the closest library. For underpinning all else is the love of books. Linda knew how important books were going to be in her life ever since she jumped off the little yellow bus returning her home from Arrow Rock's two-room school and ran up the country drive, shouting to her mother, "I can read, I can read!"
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