For over a decade, editor and writer Linda Fritz has been researching and writing Answering Alaska's Call, a book about Alaska’s pioneering EENT surgeon, WWII hero, bush pilot, and state legislator Dr. Milo H. Fritz. The resulting memoir-biography of her uncle will be published by Epicenter Press August 8, 2023.
Through extensive archival research, augmented by her own personal records, correspondence and memories of her uncle, Linda chronicles the story of Milo 'Doc' Fritz who, with his wife and nurse Betsy, journeyed from New York to Alaska in 1940 to pursue his dream of bringing modern medicine to The Territory of Alaska, especially to the neglected Native villages.
Before beginning work on the book, Linda was the editor of The Delmarva Review, a literary journal published on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
Early in her career she was an assistant editor at Sunset and the associate editor of Diversion magazine. Linda also traveled the U.S. extensively as a marketing researcher and management consultant before marrying and moving to a farm on the Eastern Shore of Maryland where she and her husband raised three sons.
Linda began writing for local newspapers at the age of fourteen. During college, she was selected for a summer internship program sponsored by the American Society of Magazine Editors, interning for Rudder magazine in NYC and Sunset magazine in Menlo Park, CA. She received a B. S. from Penn State University where she majored in consumer studies and journalism, the highlight being a ten-week program studying the British mass media, based at the University of Manchester in England.