Linda Henley

Author

Linda Stewart Henley is an award-winning novelist, accomplished artist, and a retired college administrator. Kate’s War, her third novel, is being released in April, 2024, by She Writes Press. Her first two novels each won awards.

Estelle garnered the following recognition: Silver medal for IPPY contest for historical fiction; finalist for Hoffer Book Award for debut novel; ; first place for Chanticleer International Book Award for romance (Chateleine contest); finalist for Nancy Pearl Book Award for fiction; finalist for New Generation Book Awards for first novel, finalist for Best Book Awards for art.

Waterbury Winter received the following recognition: Gold medal for Living Now Awards for general fiction; finalist for Chanticleer Award for humor (Mark Twain contest); finalist for New Generation Indie Book Awards for inspirational fiction; finalist for Best Book Awards for cross-genre fiction; finalist for Readers’ Favorite award for general fiction; finalist for Foreword Indies award for humor; finalist for International Book Awards for general fiction.

Her four-decade long career was split amongst three campuses — Yale University, University of California at Berkeley, and University of California in San Francisco. Her positions ranged from Human Resources Manager to Administrative Director for the Francis J. Proctor Foundation for Research in Opthalmology. She also spent three years as the Executive Director at a non-profit organization, the Skagit Symphony. Henley earned several professional awards for excellent management.

Her hobbies and interests include gardening, painting, and piano. She enjoys painting native wildflowers and landscapes in watercolor. Her works are held in private collections in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington’s Camano Island, and Edinburgh, UK. Her works have been exhibited at various galleries and wineries, as well as the San Francisco Botanical Garden Helen Crocker Library, the University of California at SF, the University of North Carolina Botanical Garden, the Medical Art Society’s Exhibition at The Mall Galleries in London, and Moffitt-Long Hospital at the University of San Francisco Medical Center.

Born in Liverpool, UK, she lived in the county of Surrey for the first 16 years of her life. She then moved with her family to Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She graduated from Tulane University in New Orleans and lived there for about three years. After spending several months in Germany and Austria after graduation (she was a German major in college), she moved to Berkeley, California. Later, she moved to New Haven, Connecticut, then moved back to California, finally living in Marin County. Upon retiring she moved to Anacortes, Washington.

She is married and has two children and two grandchildren. For more information, please see: