Linda Carroll

Linda Carroll (born 1944 San Francisco) is an American author and the mother of Courtney Love.

Carrol was adopted into an Italian Catholic family. She graduated from high school in 1961 and gave birth to Love in 1964. After finishing her bachelors degree in Oregon in the seventies, she moved to New Zealand. She returned to Oregon in the eighties and received a masters in counseling, and began practicing as a therapist. As an adult, Carroll found her birth mother, the novelist Paula Fox (her grandmother was screenwriter Elsie Fox). In 2006, her memoir Her Mother’s Daughter, was published by Doubleday. In 2008, Remember Who You Are was published by Conari Press, and she is currently working on a book about relationships entitled Love’s Four Journeys.

External links

• SFGate: MOTHERS & DAUGHTERS: Courtney Love's mom, Linda Carroll, reflects on her daughter and her own birth mother

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