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Linda Berry
Member since 1980
Mystery novelist, short fiction, plays
Author, Trudy Roundtree mystery series
Linda Berry based her application for DWPC membership in 1980 on some short children's fiction, preschool curriculum, and articles for a family magazine. Since then, she's written an entertainment column for a community newspaper, been editor/writer for a tennis publication, and published adult short fiction, plays, and poetry.
She credits "the enormously energizing atmosphere created by the talented, generous, supportive women of the DWPC" with helping her achieve a longstanding dream, that of becoming a mystery novelist.
Her five Trudy Roundtree mysteries (which she describes as "soft boiled
and mixed with grits") draw heavily on her south Georgia roots,
specifically a policeman cousin, who bears a strong resemblance to one
of her main characters.