Linda Crew

Linda Crew is a fourth-generation Oregonian and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Oregon's School of Journalism. Among her nine books are historical novels Fire on the Wind (1933 Tillamook Burn), Brides of Eden: A True Story Imagined, and A Heart for Any Fate: Westward to Oregon: 1845, winner of the Oregon Book Award and the Willa, named for Willa Cather and given by Women Writing the West. Her first novel, Children of the River, won the International Reading Association's Children's...See more

Linda Crew is a fourth-generation Oregonian and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Oregon's School of Journalism. Among her nine books are historical novels Fire on the Wind (1933 Tillamook Burn), Brides of Eden: A True Story Imagined, and A Heart for Any Fate: Westward to Oregon: 1845, winner of the Oregon Book Award and the Willa, named for Willa Cather and given by Women Writing the West. Her first novel, Children of the River, won the International Reading Association's Children's Book Award. Recent memoirs include Accidental Addict and Wedding in Yangshuo. She lives at Wake Robin Farm in Corvallis, Oregon, where she and her husband are tree farmers. See less