Background
Underhill, Linda L. was born on February 25, 1952 in Pittsburgh. Daughter of Edmund Adam and Helen Concetta Leshinski.
( After spending most of her life in the city, Linda Unde...)
After spending most of her life in the city, Linda Underhill moved to rural Allegany County, New York, in 1989 and observed a successful citizens' protest against a low-level nuclear waste dump near her home. Having always thought the environmental movement applied mainly to the wilderness, Underhill began writing to voice the essence of what her neighbors were trying to preserve in their own backyards. Her essays describe elements of the natural world: wind, water, ice, fire, trees. The title essay concerns the "unequal hours" of the changing seasons, while other essays explore a nature preserve, a garden, backyard wildlife, and a hot air balloon ride. Deliberately choosing settings close to home, she shows that one does not have to go on a wilderness voyage to appreciate the natural world. The Unequal Hours brings to our attention the sudden, intense experiences of reality that Virginia Woolf called "moments of being" by using the events of everyday life as a way to explore what the natural world means to ordinary people. Like the sudden moments of illumination in haiku, the "moments of being" Underhill describes are rooted in the ordinary, but they reveal the extraordinary.
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Underhill, Linda L. was born on February 25, 1952 in Pittsburgh. Daughter of Edmund Adam and Helen Concetta Leshinski.
Bachelor, University Pittsburgh, 1973. Master of Fine Arts, University Arizona, 1977.
She taught in the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program at Chatham University and at Gettysburg College, Empire State College, Alfred University, and the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, where she also served as chair of the Humanities Division. She was born Linda Leshinski in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, earned her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pittsburgh and her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Arizona.
( After spending most of her life in the city, Linda Unde...)
Married William Webb Underhill, June 10, 1989.