Linda Cargill graduated from Bethel Park High School in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. She was a National Merit Finalist and got an honorable mention in the Atlantic Monthly writing contest for high school students for her short story Old Man Cactus. She attended Bryn Mawr College as an archaeology major. In the middle of her junior year she transferred to Duke University where she went on to graduate with high honors with a B.A. in English. She got her M.A. in English at Duke and moved to Charlottesville, Virginia with her husband, Gary, who had just graduated from Duke Law School and had take more...
