posted May 07, 2006 03:08 PM         

I would like to know when Linda died, and the cause of death. Thank you very much for your assistance.

posted May 07, 2006 03:42 PM         

South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL) - October 25, 1995
Deceased Name: LINDA GOODMAN, ASTROLOGER, WROTE BEST-SELLER 'SUN SIGNS'
Linda Goodman, whose down-to-earth insights into character traits were credited with bringing astrology out of the occult section and onto the best-seller lists with the 1968 publication of Sun Signs, died on Saturday at Penrose Hospital in Colorado Springs, Colo. She was about 70 and lived in Cripple Creek.

The hospital said the cause was complications of diabetes.

It may have been "the dawning of the age of Aquarius," as the 1960s song put it, but until Mrs. Goodman, a one-time newspaper reporter and sometime radio writer who had picked up an interest in astrology from grocery store booklets, sat down at her typewriter, the rays had not caused a blink in the publishing industry.

Within months after an obscure house named Taplinger brought out Sun Signs, in 1968, it had become the first book on astrology to make The New York Times best-seller list.

Since then, her agent, Arthur Klebanoff, said on Tuesday, Sun Signs, and two follow-up volumes, Love Signs, (1978) and Star Signs, (1988) have sold more than 30 million copies in 15 languages and continue to sell about 200,000 copies a year.

What set Mrs. Goodman's books apart was a combination of her sharp insights and her elegant, accessible style.

Writing in the first person and drawing on the lives of celebrities, historical figures and personal friends to illustrate her points, Mrs. Goodman sometimes seemed more psychologist than astrologer.

Mrs. Goodman, whose original name was Mary Alice Kemery, was born in Morgantown, W.Va., on a date she gave as April 19 in a year she would never disclose.

The date made her a triple Aries, and Mrs. Goodman, a five-foot-or-so dynamo fit the astrological profile to a T. "She was pushy," her son said.

South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
Date: October 25, 1995
Edition: FINAL
Page: 7B
Record Number: 9510240507
Copyright (c) 1995, Sun-Sentinel Company. All rights reserved.

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Chicago Tribune (IL) - October 29, 1995
Deceased Name: LINDA GOODMAN, 70, AUTHOR OF ASTROLOGY BOOKS
Linda Goodman, author of "Sun Signs," the book credited with popularizing astrology in the 1960s, is dead at age 70.

Ms. Goodman died Oct. 21 of complications stemming from diabetes, Penrose Hospital said

"Linda Goodman's Sun Signs," which examined personality types based on horoscopes, was published in 1968 and became the first book on astrology to make The New York Times best-seller list. It has sold 5 million copies.

She followed up with "Linda Goodman's Love Signs" in 1978, "Star Signs" in 1988 and "Goobers," a spiritual mystery novel, in 1989.

Mannu, the religion she founded, combined the teachings of St. Francis of Assisi with American Indian beliefs

Chicago Tribune (IL)
Date: October 29, 1995
Edition: CHICAGOLAND FINAL
Page: 4
Record Number: CTR9510290401
Copyright (c) 1995, Chicago Tribune Company. All rights reserved.