BIOGRAPHY – LINDA MASON HUNTER

“Linda Mason Hunter is a rare writer -- someone who’s helped create great-selling books and is a pleasure to work with. As an editor, I can say that finding these qualities together is not as easy as I’d like it to be.” - Benjamin Allen, Executive Editor, Meredith Corporation.

A PIONEER IN AMERICA'S GREEN MOVEMENT

Linda's first book, The Healthy Home: An Attic-to-Basement Guide to Toxin-Free Living (Rodale Press, 1989) became a primer for the green building movement. A favorable review in The New York Times called the book "a sort of Whole Earth Catalog for the home," leading to multiple national and international media appearances, including features on "Good Morning, America" and CNN.

Formerly an editor with the Des Moines Register, Rodale Press, and Meredith Corporation, Linda travelled the U.S. supervising photo shoots and searching for stories about houses, architects, and designers. She has freelanced for the past 35 years, winning national awards for feature writing and publishing in-depth articles about living in balance with nature. In 1994 she founded Healthy Home Designs marketing architect-designed home plans with blueprints and eco-specifications, one of which was featured in an eight-part television series on the PBS show “Hometime.”

Linda has written and produced more than 12 books (including Green Clean, a classic in its genre). In 2012, under the name Ink Pinn Press, she and Suzanne Summersgill published a children's book, Three Green Rats, An Eco Tale, printed on forest certified paper in plant-based inks, winner of two national awards and published in Korean. 

Forever hungry for new adventures, she has lived in a log home outside Fayetteville, Arkansas; a renovated one-room school house in Strafford, Vermont; off the grid on the edge of a cliff near Pecos, New Mexico, in a yurt by the Amtrak station in Lamy, New Mexico, and in a lovely garden condo in Vancouver, British Columbia, always returning to her century-old farmhouse in the heart of Iowa where she writes The Green Zone blog to accompany her daily radio program. When not in her garden or road tripping with Harpo (her 10-year-old Briard), she is busily at work writing a memoir about growing up with a stutter.

She earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Iowa State University with a double major in English Literature and Anatomy & Physiology, and a Master of Arts degree in Journalism/Mass Communication from Drake University.

She currently writes “The Green Zone” blog and broadcasts “The Green Zone” four times daily on KFMG-FM in Des Moines, Iowa.

For more information, email Linda@Hunterink.com.

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