Mary Alice Kemery, popularly known as Linda Goodman, was a New York Times bestselling American astrologer and poet.
14 Facts About Linda Goodman
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Linda Goodman wrote the first astrology book to make the New York Times Best Seller list.
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Linda Goodman attended and graduated from Parkersburg High School in 1943 aged 18 years.
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Linda Goodman assumed the name 'Linda' during World War II for a popular WCOM radio show in Parkersburg that she hosted called Love Letters from Linda.
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Linda Goodman began her career writing for newspapers in the eastern and southeastern United States.
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Linda Goodman wrote speeches for black American civil rights leader Whitney Young, who served for several years as president of the National Urban League.
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Some have suggested that Linda Goodman was responsible for accelerating the growth of the New Age movement through the unprecedented success of her first astrology book Linda Goodman's Sun Signs.
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Linda Goodman was mother to four children: Sally and William Snyder from her first marriage, and Jill and Michael Linda Goodman from her second marriage.
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Linda Goodman had at least one other child, a daughter who died in infancy.
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Linda's husband Sam Goodman had identified the body at the New York morgue, and had the body cremated, but recanted the identification a few days later.
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Linda Goodman never accepted the official police closure report as a suicide or accidental suicide, and spent much money, and continued to search for Sally for the rest of her own life.
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Linda Goodman made Cripple Creek, Colorado, her home during the latter part of her life.
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Linda Goodman first lived in a small Victorian house on Carr Street and later moved to a newer home on the outskirts of the main town.
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Linda Goodman died in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on October 21,1995, at the age of 70, from complications of diabetes.