Linda Lipnack Kuehl

Linda Lipnack Kuehl (January 24, 1940 – February 6, 1978) was an American arts journalist, based in New York City. Intending to write a biography of Billie Holiday, she interviewed friends, fellow performers, and key figures in Holiday's life, but died before its completion. Various other writers' biographies on Holiday have drawn upon Kuehl's material, as did the film Billie, which is narrated by Kuehl's recorded interviews. She worked as a high school teacher and free lance writer.

She was a Jewish feminist and a fan of Billie Holiday. In 1971, she began plans for a biography of Holiday, who had died aged 44 in 1959. However, Kuehl did not complete the book. after attending a Count Basie concert. "Police deemed it suicide, Kuehl having supposedly jumped from her hotel room, although there was no proof of this", and around the same were used for the script for a Masters of American Music series documentary of the same name. Some of Kuehl's material was used in Donald Clarke's 1994 biography, Wishing on the Moon and her interviews were used in Julia Blackburn's 2005 biography With Billie: a New Look at the Unforgettable Lady Day. Documentary director James Erskine bought the rights to Kuehl's tapes including Kuehl's.

Personal life Kuehl's parents were Sol and Ida Lipnack and she had a sister, Myra Luftman.