Photographer Linda Svendsen died on April 23, 2007 of ovarian cancer. Linda and I became friends while working together on all three of my books. She was a delightful collaborator, and no matter how long the day, her good humor and sly wit never flagged.
I only saw Linda lose her cool once, when we came out of a Vancouver restaurant to find that our rental car had vanished, along with thousands of dollars of photography equipment and a week’s worth of photos of green homes in the Pacific Northwest. No doubt the panic-stricken look on her face mirrored my own. (more…)
