13 Facts About Linda Carroll

Linda Carroll was born on Linda Anne Risi; April 7,1944 and is an American writer, marriage counselor, and family therapist.

Linda Carroll is best known professionally as a couples therapist and as an author of three books, the latest being Love Cycles: The Five Essential Stages of Lasting Love, in 2014.

Linda Carroll is the mother of singer and musician Courtney Love, and the daughter of novelist Paula Fox.

Linda Carroll was born on April 7,1944, in San Francisco, California, to writer Paula Fox, who was 20 years old at the time.

Linda Carroll was conceived of a short-lived relationship between Fox and an unnamed man.

Linda Carroll did not meet her birth mother until later in life.

Linda Carroll's maternal grandfather was screenwriter Paul Hervey Fox, and her grandmother, Elsie Fox was a Cuban writer.

Linda Carroll was adopted by optician Emil "Jack" and Louella Risi, a Catholic family of part Italian descent, and raised in the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco.

Later in life, she took the surname Linda Carroll following the death of her friend Judy Linda Carroll.

Linda Carroll married writer and publisher Hank Harrison in 1963 in Reno, Nevada and gave birth to daughter Courtney Michelle Harrison on July 9,1964.

Linda Carroll divorced Harrison after 18 months of marriage, alleging that he had given her the drug LSD, and brought her daughter Courtney with her to Marcola, Oregon.

Linda Carroll had two other daughters with her second husband, Frank Rodriguez.

Linda Carroll returned to Oregon in the 1980s, received a masters in counseling, and began practicing as a therapist.