Linda Rodriguez McRobbie
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Linda Rodriguez McRobbie

Linda Rodriguez McRobbie is an American writer and journalist living in Surrey, England. When people ask her what she writes about, the answer is usually longer than anyone wants to hear: Linda writes about everything from highly unusual conditions of memory to monster trucks, from alien abductions to the last man to live in an iron lung, from the history of prams to why anger is addictive.

After graduating from Columbia School of Journalism in 2004, Linda began her career in Boston, first at the City Desk of the Boston Herald, and then at the South End News, paper of record for the South End of Boston, and Bay Windows, paper of record for New England's GLBTQ community. After four years in the trenches of community journalism, Linda decided to both move to London and become a full-time freelance journalist. Neither decision turned to out be as easy as it first sounded.

In 2013, Linda published her first book, Princesses Behaving Badly, a series of biographies of fascinating and often-overlooked women who had been princesses; it has since been translated into multiple languages, including Hungarian, Russian, Turkish, German, and Spanish. Linda is also a widely published journalist whose work has appeared in The Guardian, The Boston Globe Ideas section, Atlas Obscura, Topic Magazine, Smithsonian.com, Slate.com, Mental Floss, The Atlantic, American Way magazine, US News & World Report, and others. OUCH! Why Pain Hurts and Why It Doesn't Have To, co-written with the brilliant Margee Kerr, is her second book and deals with how the experience of pain is created and what we can do about it.


She's married to graphic designer Chris McRobbie and they have two sons and one cat.
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