King, Linda

Linda King was raised on a cattle ranch in the wild back country of Boulder, Utah, what is now part of the Staircase Escalante National Monument. It was one of the last towns in America to receive a road and the last place mail was delivered by horseback. Linda has been a sculptor for over fifty years and has done many portraits of writers and poets, including Charles Bukowski, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Geraldine King, Harold Norse, Neeli Cherkovski, Jack Hirschman and A.D. Winans. A short movie was made of her play, "Only A Tenant," when she was living with Charles Bukowski in Los Angeles. For m...