Linda Stasi, Author Biography
Bestselling novelist, and award-winning former columnist for the New York Daily News, and previously for the New York Post, and New York Newsday Linda Stasi, was also an on-camera TV co-host on NY 1-Spectrum “What a Week!” for 15 years.

Her newest bestseller, The Descendant is an Amazon Editor's Pick for both Fiction and Literature. Shortly after publication she was awarded the coveted Dea Roma Award for Literary Achievement, from NIAF, the largest Italian American organization in the world. The Descendant has been lauded on The View, Good Day New York, The Historical Novel Society, People Magazine, and Page Six.

Brash, funny and opinionated, the acerbic Stasi’s first novel, The Sixth Station, published in January of 2013 by Tor-Forge Books hit Amazon’s top 25, and was hailed as “A helluva religious thriller,” by Nelson DeMille, while Steve Berry said, “You’ll be grabbing the pages so right your knuckles will turn white!”

Stasi’s sequel, Book of Judas, published in 2017, received acclaim from mega best selling authors such as Sherrilyn Kenyon, who called it, “An innovative masterpiece!”
Stasi has appeared on TV talk shows and news channels such as The Today Show, Good Morning America, Good Day New York, The View as well as CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and many others.

In 2020, Governor Andrew Cuomo appointed her to the Mother Cabrini Commission.
In 2022, Rev. Al Sharpton elected her to the Board of The Civil Rights Museum, where she currently serves as Treasurer.

She currently hosts “Uncensored” for CUNY TV and teaches novel writing to journalist members of the Newswomen’s Club of New York.
She was named “One of the Fifty Most Powerful Women in NYC” by the New York Daily News and has won numerous awards including two “Best Columnist” by the Newswomen’s Club of NY.
Linda and her late husband, Sid Davidoff, were named by “City & State” as one of NYC’s 100 top power couples.