Linda Tatelbaum (1947 - )

Genre: Non-Fiction, General Fiction

Linda Tatelbaum, born in Rochester, New York, on 28 Feb. 1947, now lives in Burkettville (Appleton), Maine, with her husband Kal Winer in a solar-powered house. Her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. are all from Cornell University. Before moving to Maine, she lived in New Hampshire and Appalachia. She came to Maine in 1977 and is Professor Emerita at Colby College in Waterville (retired in 2007).

Tatelbaum founded About Time Press in 1996 to publish her first book, Carrying Water as a Way of Life: A Homesteader's History (1997), which has been widely reviewed and acclaimed; Yes! magazine offers an interesting and extensive review. Writer on the Rocks: Moving the Impossible (1999) combines writing and actual rock-moving as its twinned themes. Her novel, Yes and No, was published in 2003. Her second non-fiction title, Woman Who Speaks Tree: confessions of a tree hugger, was published in 2008.

For more on Tatelbaum, including excerpts from her books, more reviews, and NPR interviews, visit her Web site at Colby College. You can read more about her gardening venture (with her husband), which they call Gardening Mutual, in 'Letter from Appleton', a 3-page PDF file with photos. More biographical info in an essay titled 'My Not-So-Simple Resume' at Utne Reader, excerpted from Carrying Water as a Way of Life.


Last Update: 12/21/2008

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