Linda Schele (1942-1998) was a well-known expert in Mayan epigraphy and iconography. Her work contributed greatly to the decipherment of Mayan glyphs. FAMSI has put many of her drawings of stelae and inscriptions on line, and these are indexed in the digitized materials section of the Virtual Mesoamerican archive. Before her premature death from pancreatic cancer in 1998, she had authored and co-authored many books on the Maya: Maya Glyphs, The Verbs (1982); The Mirror, The Rabbit, And The Bundle: "Accession" Expressions From The Classic Maya Inscriptions (1983); The Blood Of Kings: Dynasty And Ritual In Maya Art (1986); A Forest Of Kings: The Untold Story Of The Ancient Maya (1990), Maya Cosmos: Three Thousand Years On The Shaman's Path (1993); Hidden Faces Of The Maya Art (1997); The Code Of Kings: The Language Of Seven Sacred Maya Temples And Tombs (1998). A biographical video about her life and work on the Maya is Edgewalker: A Conversation with Linda Schele (1999). She was a ground-breaking epigrapher and professor in the Department of Art at the University of Texas, Austin. (SW) For more information, see: http://www.famsi.org/research/schele/, http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/pqrst/schele_linda.html, http://www.halfmoon.org/schele.html, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Schele. Photo borrowed from this site: http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/pqrst/schele_linda.html.