Linda Wolfe (November 15, 1932 – February 22, 2020) was an American journalist, essayist, and fiction writer. She was best known for her award-winning work, Wasted: The Preppie Murder, an investigation of the so-called "rough sex" killer, Robert Chambers. Wolfe was also a book critic and a founding member of the National Book Critics Circle.
Wolfe died of problems caused by bowel surgery at a Manhattan hospital on February 22, 2020 at the age of 87.