Harold Walker

Walter had been a capable professor - kind, understanding, with a bit of an edge and an almost pomposity that only attracted young writers with a bit to chomp or an inflated ego themselves, mostly young males threatened that Walter had succeeded at the impossible art of succeeding as a writer. 


Walter had been writing since he was 18 months olds - and eventually developed a character, Harold Walker, who would be the star of his twenty something children's books, written by a child and young adult. Harold Walker was an "handsome intellectual" character, which was a cover for "young Marxist Hebrew," a mix of a hard Americana spirit with the detective feel of Batman. Harold would have adventures of the mind at home and school, like "Harold Walker and the Great Science Debate" (feather vs. lead iron weight) or "Harold Walker and the Fourth Candle" (a truly moving Hanukkah caper) and so forth. Dr. Linkman, seeing his son's talent, paired him with an artist from the university and sketched out the first 28-page book. From there they self published five books, and eventually built a small company, Linkman Publishing, which they sold when Walter moved onto the novel at 16 and looked for larger distribution and a more mature, national audience.