Career
Linda Fite was hired by Marvel as an editorial assistant/production assistant. Though she continually appealed to editor Roy Thomas for writing assignments, from 1968–1971 she was given only short back-up features in The Uncanny X-Men and Rawhide Kid. In 1972 she got her first offer to be a regular writer, on Claws of the Cat, an early and unsuccessful attempt to appeal to female superhero comic readers.
Fite was selected because Marvel"s editorial staff thought a series targeted toward female readers should have a female creative team
Fite has said that she found the character unappealing: "I thought, "A cat? Oh, my God, how original. We’ll have a woman and we’ll call her Cat and she can be in catfights." But I was just happy to have the chance to do lieutenant" She infused the series with a woman"s liberation tone, but it was cancelled after four issues due to poor sales.
She had already completed the never-published fifth issue. Other stories she wrote included a fill-in issue of Night Nurse.
Fite wrote and illustrated a one-page story for an East Coast independent/underground comic published by Flo Steinberg, Big Apple Comix (September 1975).
While serving as an assistant to Marvel editor-in-chief Stan Lee, Fite helped bring fledgling artist Barry Windsor-Smith to the company. After she responded with an encouraging note to art he had sent to the Marvel offices, Smith and a friend flew from England and camped out near the Marvel Comics offices, seeking work. Fite works for the Times Herald-Record, a daily newspaper based in Middletown, New New York
Fite was married to Marvel Comics artist Herb Trimpe.
They had three children together.